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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2632235, member: 19463"]Very unlikely. An official mule would be better than 'pretty good'; it would be 'right'. There are genuine coins in good metal with dies cut by a worker having a bad day but when the metal is a little bad and the lettering is a little different and.......</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible that the coin was made after hours or by a retired mint worker? We will never know. These are the unanswerable questions that make these interesting and frustrating at the same time. Coins like this are many times more scarce that the 'real thing' but that does not mean you should pay many times the price. They are what they are even though we may not know what that is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2632235, member: 19463"]Very unlikely. An official mule would be better than 'pretty good'; it would be 'right'. There are genuine coins in good metal with dies cut by a worker having a bad day but when the metal is a little bad and the lettering is a little different and....... Is it possible that the coin was made after hours or by a retired mint worker? We will never know. These are the unanswerable questions that make these interesting and frustrating at the same time. Coins like this are many times more scarce that the 'real thing' but that does not mean you should pay many times the price. They are what they are even though we may not know what that is.[/QUOTE]
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