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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rlm&#039;s cents, post: 240843, member: 7957&quot;]My guess is that it will happen sooner than most here seem to think.&nbsp; They presently have systems that could reproduce the a virtually exact copy of the coin&#039;s shape including the wear, nicks et al close enough that I would bet no one here could tell the difference between the 2 shapes.&nbsp; They probably would not be the same material not look even similar, but the shape would be virtually identical.&nbsp; The problems are the luster, color, and eye appeal.&nbsp; My guess is that there are programs out there that will soon be capable of most of that.&nbsp; As to the relative strikes of the different mintages, that is exactly the type of data crunching that computers excel in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something to think about for the future;&nbsp; If a computer can completely analyze a coin (required for accurate grading), how long do you think it will be before they are capable of a nearly perfect replication of that coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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