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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 18030033, member: 92655"]I have been assembling a circulated three cent nickel book and I am down to those last two dates. Circulated business strikes are many thousands of dollars but the proof strikes are hundreds. I’m not doing a registry set, just plugging holes so unquestionably those last two spaces will be filled with proofs when [USER=20480]@ToughCOINS[/USER] finds them for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have about halfway been thinking that I may carry those proofs around in my pocket change for a while so they look like they belong in my Dansco, but that seems deceptive to me. There are no mint marks to identify a proof from a business strike, so once I wear down the rims and devices a bit, how would one tell that it isn’t an impaired proof?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 18030033, member: 92655"]I have been assembling a circulated three cent nickel book and I am down to those last two dates. Circulated business strikes are many thousands of dollars but the proof strikes are hundreds. I’m not doing a registry set, just plugging holes so unquestionably those last two spaces will be filled with proofs when [USER=20480]@ToughCOINS[/USER] finds them for me. I have about halfway been thinking that I may carry those proofs around in my pocket change for a while so they look like they belong in my Dansco, but that seems deceptive to me. There are no mint marks to identify a proof from a business strike, so once I wear down the rims and devices a bit, how would one tell that it isn’t an impaired proof?[/QUOTE]
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