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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 212102, member: 5719&quot;]As I mentioned in the &quot;2007s&quot; thread, I was at the Minneapolis / St. Paul airport again last Friday (30th) and during my wait time, I tried out two arbitrarily selected change machines.&nbsp; These machines are located with groups of vending machines that take dollar coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I put a five dollar bill in each of two different machines, which yielded the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Two rather circulated and tarnished 2000-P Sacagawea dollars.&nbsp; I spent those in the vending machine.</p><p><br /></p><p>- One pretty decent looking 2001-D Sac, which I kept.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Seven &quot;uncirculated&quot; Washington Dollars.&nbsp;&nbsp; All of them had pronounced &quot;bag marks&quot; including a few very noticable scratches in the fields.&nbsp; I doubt that any of these would grade very high into the MS-60s... well, with the exception of using one particular grader :goofer: </p><p>I did want to examine these to see if there were any &quot;lack of edge lettering&quot; mistakes, and sorry to say, I have not hit the jackpot.&nbsp; But I did notice that on some of the coins, the edge lettering is facing a different direction.&nbsp; I was very happy to see the discussion of this here on CoinTalk which saved me from making myself looking quite silly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The final tally was as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>Five Philadelphia mint marks (2007 P) oriented as follows:</p><p>- Three with the top of the edge lettering &quot;pointing to&quot; the Washington portrait, or obverse</p><p>- Two the with top of the edge lettering pointing to the Statue of Liberty, or reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Hey, instead of &quot;right side up&quot; and &quot;upside down,&quot; how about &quot;President Orientation&quot; and &quot;Liberty Orientation&quot;?&nbsp; Neither is pejorative or suggests an error condition.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Two Denver mint marks (2007 D), one of each orientation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will keep the two D&#039;s and the best looking of each of the P&#039;s for Thalia Elizabeth&#039;s collection, and give away or spend the other three coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, I continue to be underwhelmed by the design, and, frankly, the concept; but the reverse with the Statue of Liberty is growing on me.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have two more trips to Minneapolis already scheduled this year and maybe I&#039;ll see some 07 Sacs or even the Adams dollar then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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