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Message:: [QUOTE="Coinguy56, post: 1190403, member: 27133"]@WingedLiberty: I would invest in Kevin Flynn's Blue Book on MPL's, I have one, and it is a GREAT book on MPL's. It has everything you need to learn about MPL's; original mintages, diagnostics, comparison to MPL and business strike (shows you the difference with two pictures). It also has a list of each date of prices realized in auctions, for example a 1915 MPL graded NGC PR-65 RB sold for $1,035 on 9/16/2006 at Heritage. It's a great book for the collector. Even though you can study the book on how to spot MPL's raw, I would still feel safer purchasing a certified one, but that's my personal opinion. And also, it is certainly possible to find a raw MPL, 9 times out of 10 the seller has PROBABLY tried to get it certified, only to come back body-bagged with some kind of problem, etc altered color, cleaning, etc. So he tries to pass it on as a raw, problem-free MPL. But that is not always the case, I've heard stories where people have purchased raw MPL's and they come back as gem proof, so problem-free raw MPL's are out there, just very rare.[/QUOTE]