I just received my bags of quarters of Perry's Victory P & D. What can I say about the quality control at the mint ? All coins have rinse stains on the surface of the coins. I don't know if this is normal for all my National Park quarters as I don't normally open the bags. Has anyone else experienced the problem of new stained coins from the US Mint? Sorry that I can't post pictures as the stains would not probably show up. Dave
Dave, You do understand that they are business strike coins and the mint doesn't really care about the quality of them when collectors are concerned. Your complaint is a common one amongst collectors. This topic comes up at least once a week in the periodicals and on-line. These are not collector coins. The mint is minting billions of these coins and can't be concerned if a few billion of these have spots on them. They are intended to be circulated bottom line......and yes, even the ones that the mint "specially" packages up for collectors.
Exactly. Proofs are collector coins business strikes are for exactly that conducting business. It's the dealers in their effort to make a buck that has made MS coins a collectible. Plus it just seems worse now because collectors were used to the satin finish coins that were specially prepared and were placed from the bins to the packaging by hand. That's why now that they have gone back to just taking a minted bin of cents, nicks, dimes, quarters, etc. and shoving them into mint set packaging the quality has dropped back to dismal levels. Also not to mention the cutbacks that are happening as the fed tries to spend less and rake in more.
I understand and agree with your statements. I am having trouble trying to figure out just where the MS coins come from. Certainly, not in the batch that I got. Maybe there is something to the "First release"or First strikes after all. Dave
Has nothing to do with the first release or first strikes, just luck. They are all sorted from the same bags of quarters. People buy the bags then pick out the best ones for their collection or to send in. Keep in mind, just because they don't have rinse spots on them now doesn't mean that they may not develop them later. I know it sucks, but that is what makes the hobby fun. If everything was perfect 100% of the time then nothing would have any value.
