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<p>[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3313846, member: 100720"]That makes a lot of sense, which is why I was leaning exclusively towards Maple Leafs for 1 oz pieces in the future and was thinking that I wouldn't even bother with the Gold Eagles going forward. (I don't like the idea of the gold buffalos. I find it disturbing that in building our country we destroyed almost an entire population of a people as well as an animal, and now that they're both gone we "honor" (our destruction of) them by putting their images on both sides of one of the most valuable coins our government produces. It just leaves me with a bad taste and I was not able to bring myself to buy a gold buffalo even when they were on sale. No judgment on those who buy or own them, I just really dislike the idea of them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm curious though about the Maple Leaf privy marks. My understanding is that the current small maple leaf privy mark with the year number inside the mini-leaf is the microscopic privy mark that can be verified with a certain machine that dealers own. But I see that Canada makes other Maple Leafs with animal privy marks on them which cost more. I assumed those were simply numismatically desirable and have nothing to do with the security of the coins. Is that correct? If not, what am I missing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3313846, member: 100720"]That makes a lot of sense, which is why I was leaning exclusively towards Maple Leafs for 1 oz pieces in the future and was thinking that I wouldn't even bother with the Gold Eagles going forward. (I don't like the idea of the gold buffalos. I find it disturbing that in building our country we destroyed almost an entire population of a people as well as an animal, and now that they're both gone we "honor" (our destruction of) them by putting their images on both sides of one of the most valuable coins our government produces. It just leaves me with a bad taste and I was not able to bring myself to buy a gold buffalo even when they were on sale. No judgment on those who buy or own them, I just really dislike the idea of them.) I'm curious though about the Maple Leaf privy marks. My understanding is that the current small maple leaf privy mark with the year number inside the mini-leaf is the microscopic privy mark that can be verified with a certain machine that dealers own. But I see that Canada makes other Maple Leafs with animal privy marks on them which cost more. I assumed those were simply numismatically desirable and have nothing to do with the security of the coins. Is that correct? If not, what am I missing?[/QUOTE]
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