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Beautiful coin! These tend to have poor surfaces and a weak strike. Coins struck for circulation are much worse and also are plagued by overused dies and marking. This date is the most common date fo… (View Post)

I search dozens of rolls per year plus all of my pocket change and have never gotten even one s-mint Unc quarter of any date. It's not unusual to find impaired proofs and I used to find them with ext… (View Post)

There are too few 1971 quarters surviving in circulation to even get a good feel for how few there are. You can't do a proper analysis of their number and condition if you can't find a single specime… (View Post)

It depends on exactly what I'm doing. I normally use one of those one cent gloves on my left hand but sometimes I wear it on my right. It's not unusual to don a second one or even use none at all. I … (View Post)

The production of each die falls onto a conveyor belt that takes it to be counted. By definition varieties are pairs of dies (die varieties) so this production ends up on the same or subsequent palle… (View Post)