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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3173227, member: 112&quot;]Perhaps not in your mind John. But that description is from the words of Q. David Bowers and backed by the ANA as they are found in the very first edition of the ANA grading standards book which was written over 40 years ago. And the same definition applied for many decades prior to that. As well as many decades after that, until the TPGs decided to start using the designation arbitrarily and of their own volition.</p><p><br /></p><p>What it amounts to is this, for a 100 years or longer the ONLY coins that were deemed worthy by the numismatic community as being worthy of the Specimen designation were specifically those coins - and no others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I readily agree with this, but specimen isn&#039;t it ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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