Hello Dolly

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• bigbadchad777 Posts: 1,835 ✭

  September 20, 2003 11:32AM

  Not many people ever reply to my commemorative related posts either.
  
  I've not seen a coin like you are describing. Post a picture.
  
  Dolly Madison coins are BEAUTIFUL!

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• dlimb2 Posts: 3,449

  September 20, 2003 11:58AM

  Hi Chad, I have them both right here. I dont know if a picture would show the difference or not.
  One appears that the mint polished one and the other one is flat. The mint luster on them both are great, just the treatment of the two coins is different. The one that is flatest is almost between a matte and a polish. I like getting two coins like this and they both be different...but something is up with one of them and I dont know which. Maybe one was produce with a fresh die and the other one had been used for a while...only thing I can figure.

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• MJCoin Posts: 222

  September 21, 2003 7:19AM

  dlimb2, what you are describing happens alot with the modern commemorative dollars. I don't know the mints' process, but I have noticed the matte and the polished variety since the 1993 Jefferson dollar. Sometimes the obverse is one variety while the reverse is another. Other prominent examples are the 2001 Buffalo and the 1997 Botanic Garden dollar.

  Michael

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• dlimb2 Posts: 3,449

  September 21, 2003 8:24AM

  MJCoin, Glad someone else had noticed that too. I wonder if someone will make them varities oneday in a book and let us know how rare they might be...I liked the idea of the two coins being different. I had also purchased a set from the mint and I compared the two new one's to it, and the one in the set was also matte finished, so it is the polished one that is missing something. I am thinking that it may be due to the dies being used but there is no damage to the coin at all. Just another mystory we will learn about later I guess.

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• dlimb2 Posts: 3,449

  September 21, 2003 8:41AM

  Another thing to I dont get. The two coins are graded the same but one is matte and the other polished, since the grading services are in the grading business why is it not there business to grade these coins accordingly. They have seen these coins day in and day out why not call the mint and ask them what causes this and put it on the label of the coins.

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• MJCoin Posts: 222

  September 21, 2003 1:54PM

  The grading services and several coin publications do inquire about minting techniques, but the mint usually replies that nothing different is being done to create the varieties. Case in point, the Goodacre Sacagawea dollar and the 2001 burnished Sacagawea dollar. It took forever for the mint to admit that the Goodacres were treated differently than the business strikes, although it was obvious to collectors and the grading services. In my opinion the modern commemorative dollars dies are being treated with two techniques, a matte finish and a polished finish, with the prooflike finish being first strikes from the polished dies. I have also seen this happening with the uncirulated silver eagles.

  Michael

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