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Message:: [QUOTE="leothelion, post: 8013444, member: 10198"]Back in the late 1990's I came across an old gent in Springfield Missouri. He was a Smelter by trade and he told me they would throw the bag in along with the coins to be melted. But he searched a few of those bags in his time and I ended up with 6-7 full step 1953-S nickels. I sold them all for around $100 each back then before PCGS started grading. (Yes, I still kick myself whenever I think about it. And I think a few of those coins ended up in Registry sets.) But they all had poor strikes. Be he also sent an EDS example to me to look at, he would not sell it to me, I had to send it back. Beside the coin I posted, his coin was the only other coin I've seen struck so nicely.But here's a 1953-S I use to own but sold it some 15 years ago. It now resides in a MS66FS holder.[ATTACH=full]1390017[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1390018[/ATTACH] Leon[/QUOTE]