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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 94757, member: 112&quot;]Die flow ? </p><p><br /></p><p>No offense 2coins, but metal flow from the coins being struck with the dies does not produce flattened and smoothed over blobs. It will either produce radial lines or the appearance of a finely grained mottled surface - which in this case is just what the rest of the fields of that coin look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, that coin was slabbed - as MS64 by some company called United.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you may well be correct about the percentage of these coins that are slabbed. But it should be taken into account about the survival percentages for these coins. The vast majority of the total mintage no longer even exist. Even at that, as of about 3 1/2 years ago, NGC &amp; PCGS had slabbed over 56,000 Bust halves with over 22,000 of those being AU50 and above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, it is much harder to find high grade examples of these coins raw than it is to find them slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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