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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pjstack, post: 935320, member: 15872&quot;]Thank you again <b>DougSmith</b> and <b>Medoraman</b> for your amplifications and explanations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Condition above all else&quot; is not one of my criteria, in fact (if I may utter heresy) I do not recoil in horror at a cleaned coin.&nbsp; A worn Mercury dime from the Depression era evokes a time when a dime was not an insignificant sum.&nbsp; Three of them would buy a pretty good lunch and many a working man had to put in an hour&#039;s hard work to earn ten of them.&nbsp; No wonder they were worn as they passed from hand to hand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll even confess to soaking a few of them in baking soda and water to remove some of the tarnish.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not that I would disdain owning a Mercury with Full Split Bands!&nbsp; I&#039;m not that much of a heretic!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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