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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;proofartoncircs, post: 1139094, member: 25952&quot;]I think a better test is to check how close the date comes to the border.&nbsp; If the centering of the strike is off, you can get a narrow rim when you should have had a wide one.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Although narrow rims are the first design, some wide rims were released on the first day of issue.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The mint has calculated that wide rims should be common due to the number of dies made.&nbsp; I think the fallacy there is that demand fell off and mintage was cut back and many, many 1979 wide rim dies were not used at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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