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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NOS, post: 2473999, member: 2098&quot;]This is generally true but halves don&#039;t circulate too widely geographically. This goes back a few years and I don&#039;t know if he does it anymore but I&#039;ve heard of an individual in New Jersey who goes through an obsessive $30,000 in halves a week and obsessively marks every coin that he doesn&#039;t save. Over time, a large percentage of coins were being found by other collectors/searchers in the region that were marked up. Coins that would have been considered keepers by other collectors were essentially ruined.</p><p><br /></p><p>So many were being marked that unmarked coins were becoming increasingly hard to find in the region. Hostile arguments broke out towards this individual on another forum, resulting in some members getting banned and the future discussion of marking coins being forbidden.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this tonight in a BWR:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/l/t34.0-12/13669022_517582805105194_511695924599343479_n.jpg?oh=997ee5c4da99a2bccdd5c9aeed8999c2&amp;oe=57934694" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It&#039;s a well circulated half so it&#039;s no big deal but I&#039;d hate to find that written on an older coin (especially an &#039;82 or &#039;83) that was in otherwise at or near Mint BU condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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