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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3590070, member: 27832&quot;]So:</p><p><br /></p><p>Collector buys a bunch of mint sets directly from the Mint in 1964 and squirrels them away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Non-collector inherits them 55 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Non-collector cuts them out of the mint sets, puts them in rolls, and turns them in at the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collector buys the roll, opens it, and finds... <i>circulated</i> halves?</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand:</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint strikes coins, dumps them into bags.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bag gets tossed around from truck to truck, possibly shoved around in bank vaults over a period of years, eventually dumped into an automatic coin counter that scrapes each coin through a metal mechanism and shoves it into rolls, which then go out to banks, where a collector buys a roll, opens it, and finds dinged-up, &quot;bag friction&quot;-laden... <i>uncirculated</i> halves?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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