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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4602085, member: 112"]Not that I ever heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, not always. But it is usually the case with business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In many cases there is a large population of the highest grades. But it usually only occurs with modern commems and Proofs. And with them, at least in today's world, it's not unusual at all for over 80% of them to be graded as 70s - both MS and PF.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, for business strikes anyway. Not so much for the ones I mentioned above.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It's all pretty simple really, to understand it, all you have to do is have a good knowledge of the minting process for all the various coins being produced - business strikes, Proofs, both types of modern commems, and collector only issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, with business strikes, (coins struck for use in circulation), the mint doesn't even care if the coins are of the highest quality. They have a minimum standard, but only a minimum standard. And they will use the dies for business strikes, pumping them out just as fast as they can until they literally wear out. And they are only struck with pressures just high enough to do the job. And there's more to it than that, the quality of the planchets also make a difference. And planchets also have a minimum quality standard. And when business strikes come off the press they are dropped into a big hopper holding many thousands of coins, with each coin dropping on all the others and them being dropped on itself. And then there's packaging, in today's world business strikes go into giant bags weighing about 1 ton. All of this leads to coins of low grade, and understandably so.</p><p><br /></p><p>With Proofs, modern commems, collector only coins - everything is different. The dies are special, made and treated with special care to be of the highest quality. And they are only used for a very short time before being replaced. The planchets too, they are treated special, only the best are selected and then they too are polished so as to remove any blemishes. Then they are struck on special presses, at higher pressures, and running a much slower pace, and the Proofs are all struck more than once. Then is special handling, none of them come off the press and drop into big hoppers, they are all removed with care one at a time. Then they are all individually packaged in protective holders and handled with the utmost care, most of them never being touched by human hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4602085, member: 112"]Not that I ever heard of. No, not always. But it is usually the case with business strikes. In many cases there is a large population of the highest grades. But it usually only occurs with modern commems and Proofs. And with them, at least in today's world, it's not unusual at all for over 80% of them to be graded as 70s - both MS and PF. Yes, for business strikes anyway. Not so much for the ones I mentioned above. It's all pretty simple really, to understand it, all you have to do is have a good knowledge of the minting process for all the various coins being produced - business strikes, Proofs, both types of modern commems, and collector only issues. Ya see, with business strikes, (coins struck for use in circulation), the mint doesn't even care if the coins are of the highest quality. They have a minimum standard, but only a minimum standard. And they will use the dies for business strikes, pumping them out just as fast as they can until they literally wear out. And they are only struck with pressures just high enough to do the job. And there's more to it than that, the quality of the planchets also make a difference. And planchets also have a minimum quality standard. And when business strikes come off the press they are dropped into a big hopper holding many thousands of coins, with each coin dropping on all the others and them being dropped on itself. And then there's packaging, in today's world business strikes go into giant bags weighing about 1 ton. All of this leads to coins of low grade, and understandably so. With Proofs, modern commems, collector only coins - everything is different. The dies are special, made and treated with special care to be of the highest quality. And they are only used for a very short time before being replaced. The planchets too, they are treated special, only the best are selected and then they too are polished so as to remove any blemishes. Then they are struck on special presses, at higher pressures, and running a much slower pace, and the Proofs are all struck more than once. Then is special handling, none of them come off the press and drop into big hoppers, they are all removed with care one at a time. Then they are all individually packaged in protective holders and handled with the utmost care, most of them never being touched by human hands. That's about it.[/QUOTE]
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