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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1424775, member: 66&quot;]And that finish would be &quot;refreshed&quot; occasionally by striking a coin through a layer of emery cloth (The struck though coin being discarded).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another reason you may be seeing a difference in finish is they may have used the dies longer on the earlier coins (Since they were refreshing the finish back then that is a definite posibility.) and so there is a greater proportion of later die states with &quot;strike polished&quot; fields than is seen with todays coins.&nbsp; Inother words any recent piece you grab is likely to be an early die stage, while any 1986 you grab is more likely to be a late die stage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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