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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1307601, member: 34169&quot;]The mint has once again confirmed not only that the bullion coin in the set was minted in San Francisco but that it is identical to the SF bullion coins being sold to APs. They did not say specifically that the coins were pulled from the AP production line (as in taken from monster boxes), only that they are identical to those coins. This can be taken to mean that even if the presses were run specifically to produce the bullion coins for the sets that they were minted on normal bullion planchets using normal bullion die in production presses and that production bullion strike forces were used. This does not mean that there aren&#039;t any die markers on some of the set bullion coins. Since it is almost certain that some die sets were used exclusively in the production of set coins (some die sets may have produced coins for both APs and sets), it is entirely possible that some die markers will only exist on set bullion coins. It is very unlikely that any particular die marker will exist on all set bullion coins unless that marker also shows up on at least some AP coins as well because such a marker would have to exist on a large number of die sets and there is no reason to believe that die were specially produced for set coin production. This announcement does mean that any bullion coin surface distinctions being made are within the normal variation for normal bullion production at the SF mint, that there is nothing out of the ordinary as far as coin surface treatment is concerned. It also means that PCGS totally jumped like a scared rabbit when they read the COA and completely overreacted to what they saw there. If they had carefully and professionally asked the mint for clarification we would be getting coins labeled as 2011-(S) for the bullion coins submitted to PCGS in mint sealed shipping packaging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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