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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jhinton, post: 974841, member: 24410&quot;]<font face="Tahoma">Can&#039;t tell until I see the picture but I have seen something like what I think you are describing. I believe it is from a chemical that the mint uses to wash the planchets and it was not completely rinsed off before the coin was minted. I have no facts to back up my theory but I have pieced it together from sources that I do not remember… I do know that the mint experimented with different “washes” during the minting of the state quarters and some of them actually turned a very dark color. PCGS has slabbed some of these and identified them as such, though I have never seen one slabbed as experimental wash that was frosty. Of course after seeing your coin I could be totally wrong, but it is just a guess.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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