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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 2502187, member: 68"]My guess is they go through hundreds of sets at a time and pull out all the sets with a very nice cherry coin and varieties. This will be about 10% of the total. Then they go through again and pull out every single one with a cull which will account for another 40%. </p><p> </p><p>They fill their needs of singles from these first half then they sell what's left with the best boxes from the other half of the sets. The Gems go in for grading and the culls go into circulation. </p><p> </p><p>Their customers actually get pretty nice coin in good boxes but without Gems or varieties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 2502187, member: 68"]My guess is they go through hundreds of sets at a time and pull out all the sets with a very nice cherry coin and varieties. This will be about 10% of the total. Then they go through again and pull out every single one with a cull which will account for another 40%. They fill their needs of singles from these first half then they sell what's left with the best boxes from the other half of the sets. The Gems go in for grading and the culls go into circulation. Their customers actually get pretty nice coin in good boxes but without Gems or varieties.[/QUOTE]
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