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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 8301525, member: 59677&quot;]It does seem, anecdotally,&nbsp; that planchets for higher value coins are less commonly found.</p><p><br /></p><p>We see a lot of cents, but the mint has used them as filler jn sets, given them out on tours,&nbsp; and even put them into the kid&#039;s set of a few years back.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If nothing else, it is cool and fun and seems to meet Meow&#039;s definition of the Cat Hoard (TM): cool or fun or unusual stuff that makes Meow happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m with Meow on this one... I find it interesting how rough the surface is and yet could have made a nice smooth coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>*I* would not kick it out of the collection even if it had a little sand on its paws![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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