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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1304264, member: 34169&quot;]I have seen enough from Mr. Jurkowsky to make me think he is a pretty straight up guy, a GO for sure, but one of the good ones. I am not sure that we have seen enough of the bullion coins to be sure that there is not some fair variation but I also think that, again because of the way that Jurkowsky spoke initially on the subject, that they may have fired up a short production run (just a couple days would do) to strike the bullion coins for this set. Part of my reasoning there is that even thought he sample is still small, it does look like they got better than normal handling, like maybe they never made it into tubes or boxes. That reinforces the notion of solely SF production as well. I don&#039;t think that there is any possibility that anything other than normal bullion die were used but since they have plenty of uncirculated planchets in SF they might have used those. Using burnished planchets for bullion strikes may have some effect on the final surface, beyond just providing for increased consistency because of the lower relief (at the microscopic level) of the fields on the die and because of the lower strike forces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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