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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 768094, member: 9474&quot;]A few months ago, I came across a beautiful pair of 20 Crown coins from Turks and Caicos (proof and UNC).&nbsp; These coins are large...slightly larger than our Silver Eagles and containing 1.15oz of silver.&nbsp; Knowing nothing about these at the time, but enamored with their beauty, I bought the two for a heck of lot more than they were probably worth.&nbsp; Of course this didn&#039;t bother me because I didn&#039;t buy them for investment, but rather sentimental reasons....my wife and I spent our honeymoon on the island.&nbsp; I like to collect coins that have sentimental value to them rather than numismatic or bullion value.&nbsp; This way, you don&#039;t get caught up so much into the grade or absolute value of the coins because the value is within the eye of beholder.&nbsp; The other reason that these coins were meaningful to me was that they were dated 1976 which was the year that my wife was born.&nbsp; Once again, not caring about price, I sent these two coins off, along with a gold one from the series to NGC for encapsulation.&nbsp; I did this not to add value to the coins, but to rather preserve them.&nbsp; The coins came back nicely slabbed and graded nearly as expected, but the proof silver one came back with all these milky spots on the obverse of the coin. I sent the coin back to NGC and not only did they remove the spots, but I got a nice grade bump as well.&nbsp; These coins have become some of my all time favorite coins and I wanted to share them with you.&nbsp; The first pictures are of the obverse of the coin when I first received it back from NGC and the original grade.&nbsp; The next set of pics are of the &quot;new&quot; coin.&nbsp; This coin, like most proofs, was very hard to get good pics with my primitive camera techniques.&nbsp; There is a lot of glare/reflection from the slab that shows up on the coin, not to mention the reflection of my camera on the coin as well.&nbsp; Of course I showed my wife the coin yesterday when I got it in and she said....nice....now get back to work. :hatch:&nbsp; (If I had an emoticon that had my tail between my legs, I would insert it here) LOL! Thanks for letting me share my story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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