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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mattman, post: 208100, member: 2621&quot;]I don&#039;t think I can get a close-up pic. But basically what he said above is correct. It actually looked better than the regular edge. A couple rolls down the driveway took care of that tho. It would probably be better to throw in a sock with a bunch of Sac dollars to give it that true beat up mint bag look.(speaking of which, have any been found in bags or just rolls?)the edges on most of these coins are pretty beat up and marked up to start with. The metal these are made out is VERY tough but it does &quot;polish&quot; quite nicely.(I&#039;ll give the mint a little credit for that, tough metal, highly polishable. It does make the proofs really nice)&nbsp; And unlike trying to remove a mint mark where there would almost always be some sort of milling evident because your working on a small area on a larger field. The edge can be made consistant all the way around leaving no real marks, iindents or low areas. Like I said before I &#039;m just giving a heads-up that this is a very easily made fake and I&#039;ve seen where they say to weigh it and if it&#039;s below 7.8 it&#039;s a fake, well you can see by my first post this one passes. If I had a bunch of them (I only got 3 spares)and if I was going to make more (I&quot;M NOT) I&#039;d just find all the &quot;heavier&quot; ones and work with them. Find a&nbsp; 8.2g do the deed and it&#039;s still 7.9-8.0g.</p><p>To answer someone else&#039;s post, yes I think it could be slipped by a TPG. I guess alot would depend on the specific grader, how busy he was, how sick he was at looking at all the ones that are flooding his desk right about now, whether his wife is mad at him, etc...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure (?) the vast majority on ebay are real but it just strikes me funny when someone with minimal feedback in the middle of Montana or somewhere else far away from where they are being found suddenly has 250 for sale. (I was passing thru Jacksonville on vacation last month and just decieded to buy 100 rolls from the area bank instead of waiting until I got home, I thought it would be easier to carry them half way across the country then to drive the mile to my local bank.But when I did get home, Surprise, Surprise...look what I found! Some people have all the luck!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mattman[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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