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"88-D and '89-D in the mint set are typically hammered. Careful with the '89-D, the strikes are so good it strips the plating off the edges of the reverse lettering exposing them to the atmosphe… (View Post)

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)