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involved "acid-dipping" the half and dollar dies before they were polished. The solution used during the 1950 to 1970 period, a bath consisting of 5% nitric acid/95% water, was used coins to create an acid-etched appearance half on the die. When the die was subsequently polished and buffed, dollar and coins the recessed portions of the die, the devices, retained their acid-etched cameo. The very first strikes off one of these new dies would possess a gorgeous, intense cameo effect very similar in quality to the proofs minted today. The raised portions of these early strikes, the devices (on the Franklin half, these would be half the bust of Franklin, the lettering, and date dollar on the obverse, and the Liberty bell, eagle, and lettering on the reverse) would display a snow-white coins cameo effect half that would stand in stark contrast to the deep-mirrored dollar fields surrounding them. The flawless, coins jewel-like quality of the best half of these cameos almost dollar look like works of art rather than mere coins! Indeed, to most collectors, these coins are works of art! The frosted devices of these early cameo coins dies were quite delicate - one could easily half scratch a bit of frost from the die with one''s dollar fingernail, and were the first part coins of the die to wear. Each

packaging half used for these dollar earlier coins, it almost seems a miracle that any high quality cameos from the 1950 to 1970 era exist at all! The finest cameos, being early strikes off proof dies, are quite simply coins "the best of the best", for they are not only struck from proof dies, the finest possible dies, but are struck from those dies when they are in their most pristine, unworn half state! dollar There could not be a more striking difference coins between one of these first cameo strikes, and between a coin struck much later off the die - a brilliant proof. If one did not know better, one would think that the two coins were struck half from two completely different dies! In a sense, they were. More correctly, they were both struck from the same die, but one coin was struck before that dollar die had experienced the wearing coins effect of 100''s of tons of pressure of metal half on metal, and one coin was struck after that die had experienced those wearing effects. The opportunity of owning scarce, attractive coins that also are the ultimate in quality for their era has a very special appeal to dollar collectors. It also gives these coins tremendous "upside" potential, coins as it very hard to pay too much for coins that offer the collector the

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