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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 309033, member: 3011&quot;]The Mint seems to have improved their production and packaging techniques, people handle them more carefully, collectors return coins that aren&#039;t &quot;perfect,&quot; and TPGs probably slightly inflate the grades compared to the past.&nbsp; A huge number of these coins seem to get slabbed because the pedigree commands a higher price for relatively common coins with differences in condition that are all but invisible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The result of all of this is that 70 is the new 65.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to treat all of the modern commemoratives and bullion coins as, well, bullion.&nbsp; I&#039;ll only buy them on that basis which frequently means not at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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