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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 3452616, member: 74863&quot;]Well I decided to open my box which came about 2 weeks ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ordered 3 Proof sets. One of the Proof Quarters, Guam, has a pencil eraser stain under the N in UNITED. Another set has the same stain in AMERICA, Guam of course. The third set is fine. I also have a small spider under the plastic on one of the Guam coins with a spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll keep them all as I have first strikes on all the coins. A number of them should make a 69 or 70 if I break them out. The good set has such a strong strike you can count the stars in the flag on the N. Mariana Islands Quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also received a single Innovations Dollar. It looks sharp but I&#039;m not thrilled with the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of the 3 free W Cents, one is perfect, no blemishes of any kind. One has a very small blemish like other threads have shown here on CT, and the third has a ever so slight blemish. That one also has a strike through on the obverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of them did have a small amount of very small blisters. Another has one bump that looks like a blister right at Lincoln&#039;s Adams Apple. I could not get a photo of either of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did manage to get a Galway decent photo of the strike through. It appears just after the TRUST in the motto. Almost shaped like a U with the top of the U being rotated to about 7 or 8 o&#039;clock. In hand it&#039;s very obvious butcwith my cell, the lighting I have and the plastic packaging I&#039;m surprised it shows at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the best of all the photos I took. The top photo is the entire obverse. The next one is enlarged enough to see the strike through. All of the haze and scratches are from the Mint&#039;s plastic bag. The last photo shows in the best detail I could get of the strike through.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s definitely raised and looks like a piece of a small thread, maybe from polishing. A nice free gift.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]917738[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]917739[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]917740[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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