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Spotting on Goodacre

Have any of you who own or have owned a goodacre presentation dollar seen any spotting? I mean specifically tiny black spotting that looks like the spotting on some lincolns (almost invisible to the naked eye, but clearly visible under 10X). It seems to be concentrated in the area just inside the rim, and may be planchet porosity. This one at 8:00 has several in one cluster and resembles part of a thumbprint at 5X (it isn't a print but seems to follow a planchet depression 1/16 inch inside the rim). I guess what I'm asking is if this is characteristic. Has it affected any of the coins that you have had graded?
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    I have seen "waterspot" type of spotting, and I've seen the faint "porosity" that you describe, but I haven't seen the black stuff.

    But if it doesn't affect the eye appeal without magnfication I wouldn't worry too much about it. If it does, you're probably better off selling it in the ICG holder (ungraded) instead of risking a low PCGS grade attached to it.
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