Who approved the Frosted coins ?

Great post Brandon.........

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

The U S Mint got too creative and trying to take to next level of quality and to me that is why they need to go bk to basic. To me sometime too much gets to become ugly. They starting to look like not real anymore. I would go to my local coin shop and do some cherry picking for the older proof or Unc. And no more of these ugly newer stuff.

 

I wonder if this could be one of the reasons the proof set mintages have been crashing.

 

Besides the 40 year trendline straight down? One would hope if the mint experienced lower sales they would take this into account. However, they might have went with this cheaper method BECAUSE of lower sales. Some companies listen to their accountants too much, (I am a CFO and CPA for full disclosure). Accountants have a habit of just dealing with costs, and ignoring quality of product. Sometimes horrible ideas like this get approved only because they save cost, without regard to quality unfortunately. After seeing these I am interested in seeing them in person. I will not buy such garbage, but I will look at them the next time I go to a show. Too bad, too, since I was seriously looking at buying all of the modern silver proof sets for my sons. If they look like this, no sense in doing that.

 

The only benefit I see about frosted coins is if they have been handled or have the slightly amount of wear on it, its clear as day. Otherwise, they look horrible. The business strikes have more detail on the devices. The only thing worse are the reverse cameo Ive seen on bullion.

 

I'm not a proof set collector so I don't really have a dog in the hunt. But if I was I'd be totally POed with the way these look. It might not look so bad on larger, higher relief coins but on the new quarters and cents with the lower relief it pretty much obliterates much of the detail.

 

They look like a toy, no art anymore.

 

I don't know, mintages seem to be fairly flat to me during the late 90s to mid 2000's UNTIL 2010, the same year the snakeskin was introduced, and from there on they seem to be dropping significantly.

 

You could be right sir, I know better than dispute you. I was just commenting on mintages starting in 1968 being basically a long downward trend. I haven't looked at them for a while. I think this kind of "retail collecting" is dying out with the general public, and we are winnowing down the coin collecting community to more devoted numismatists.