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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3786081, member: 68&quot;]There are some memorial cents that come extremely nice and MS-68&#039;s aren&#039;t too tough.&nbsp; The &#039;79 just tends to be scratched, gouged, poorly made, or all of the above.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t help that so many have spotted or tarnished because it reduces the pool of coins to check.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Copper takes a nice strike but it&#039;s also soft enough to mar easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>What many people don&#039;t realize is that in 1979 nobody cared about moderns and nobody cared what the coins from the mint looked like.&nbsp; The mint makes far better quality today but they probably get a hundred times more complaints than in 1979. Nobody cared and this was even more obvious with coins like the 1969(P) quarter.&nbsp; There are several dates of cents that are tough in Gem and &#039;79 isn&#039;t close to the top of the list.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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