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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2669983, member: 19463&quot;]We all need to remember that some of these &#039;problems&#039; are really just characteristics perhaps showing a mint that had a problem with some part of the flan preparation process or perhaps showing management that did not see such things as ragged edges as a problem.&nbsp; Later Pius do not have this problem to the same degree. Collectors see this when certain issues tend to be hard to find &#039;properly&#039; prepared while other issues are hard to find with even a single edge split.&nbsp; Early Pius coins regularly have edge irregularity.&nbsp; Does that mean they had a work crew lacking in skill and management who figured a coin is a coin so it makes no difference?&nbsp; We will never know for sure.&nbsp; Are coins that show the normal characteristics of their time and place worth less than ones that look unusually perfect?&nbsp;&nbsp; It would be wonderful to have diaries of someone who was there then.&nbsp; Many things lost to time would then be made clear.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]594292[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594293[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594294[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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