Products include last issues in 10-year Presidential dollar series Now things are starting to make sense to me and with an article I ran across that clearly answers the question I had many times about how and why the US Mint can uncaringly give out low quality coins in their 2016 proofsets and make such stupid mistakes concerning the 2016 proofsets because my 2015 Proofsets were practically pristine... Im very surprised the link wasnt posted in my other posts concerning questions about the quality of the coins in my 2016 silver and regular proofset and how a human putting these things together could just put coins that look coffee stained also damaged and crooked into the sets and not have a conscience about it...... I have a proofset with misplaced quarters,,a proofset where Gerald Ford has a shiner under his eye... I have a proofset where the quarter has a diechip pressed into the obverse rimedge and damaged reeding on the coins edging... I have a set where one of the presidential coins shows traits of being struck with an overpolished die aswell as one struck by an abraded die too...A couple have really sketchy lettering with diechips under the manganese brass then struck over by the 3 collar edge printer Now I know its Robots and not humans putting together these ridiculous proofsets....Robots cant tell the difference in coin quality or really care how they place the coins into their holders.....Most likely they just identify the coin according to weight and a CCTV camera......As you can see two out of 5 quarters werent set like the other 3....LOL So now I have a couple questions....If the mints robot damages a proofset coin does it count as a PMD and how much significant value would the proofset lose due to these damages? Now the US Mint at San Francisco needs to ramp up their end result in operations with a quality control line to ensure the robots are doing their job to the Mints best interests because with quality like I described the proofsets others buy will be sent back and the mint will have to replace the unhappy customers merchandise return with something else from stock and thats not very cost effective IMO...Catching the coin before it hits the sets and the streets into customers hands is....
Does anybody know if the uncirculated sets are assembled by robots aswell because theres coins easily seen by eye that dont quite cut the bill.... Im just hoping that some of the coins might add a lil extra value to the sets....I really hate returning things and paying to do so...
The Nixon dollar, is in horrible looking condition, hope that isn't the quality to expect from these sets!
Didn't you watch the Superbowl? They showed the octopus robots packing these And yes it counts as pmd. Post mint damage is actually a misnomer. The industry is shifting to the term PSD or "post strike damage" as it is a more accurate descriptior.
@CAM2.......when do you order your sets? First day? Subscription? I order by subscription and experienced no problems. I've never seen quarters turned like that in a proof set. I'm wondering if you maybe got someones return item.
I just assume anything not made of gold or platinum is done by robots for them now. All of their mint sets quality has been going downhill for sometime which is why a lot of people have just shifted to getting them on the after market when a lot of the times they're cheaper or at the very least you can pick the set you want
Usually (mint sets) I get a few scuffies on the set I open (I leave two sealed) but this year the one I opened was superb. And Philly was better than usual.
