I recently recieved 15 sets of U.S. Mint (4UD) Westward Journey Bison mint rolls P and D (sets). I have opened one set and found the Denver coins pretty good, a couple of decent examples and only one grease nickel (nickel struck through grease). I am very disappointed in the Philidelphia coins. These coins almost all appear to be struck through grease to one varying degree or another. You counldn't even call some of them MS 60. I'll eventually open another set, but wanted any comments from the group.
All my Bison nickels so far are very sharply struck. The Philly coins seem a little sharper than the Denver coins, but that is usually par for the course from my experience.
I can't say I'm overly impressed. I've found many examples of both mint marks where the rim is gouged. I don't know if it's because the rim is smooth and it is more readily noticed compared to other coins such as quarters. But, as it was mentioned in another thread, these are business strikes...so what do you expect?
Opened two 1000 coin bags this weekend and was really impressed with the quality from both mints. Perhaps I got early strikes with fresh dies as other than traditional bag marks I was impressed. I must DISAGREE with CoinOKC concerning which mint puts out the better coins, across the board. Denver would win that repeatedly and hands down. See way to much dirty stuff coming out of Philly in the last 5 to 8 years. Not to mention Denver has the newest equipment, unless that has changed recently. I am confident if we held a poll that Denver would come out on top.
Denver Error When I opened by box and looked at the Denver Roll, Jefferson was facing outward on both ends. The coins look if the were struck again around Jefferson's face. I really don't want to open the entire roll. Has anybody had this "error" on their Denver coins?
Welcome to the forum bonas92. Could you post a picture of what you are talking about? BTW, when coins are machine rolled they come out of the machine randomly, and rolls generally have an equal chance of being heads on both ends, tails on both ends, or one head and one tail.
Actually, rolls with one head and one tail should occur 1/2 of the time, while heads on both ends or tails on both ends should each occur 1/4 of the time.
I must have been lucky all these years. This is the first time in many years that I opened the box and had "tails" on both ends of my Denver roll. I just received my 4 sets of the nickels rolls. I decided that I would open just 1 box for my "viewing" collection and leave the other 3 sealed in the original boxes. Wouldn't ya know it! The box I opened had the D mint roll with the Bison on both ends. At least the P roll let me view the new obverse, except for one small thing. A nice big ugly brown spot (thumb size) right on the face. I may have a new discovery though. Many of you have heard of the VAM Morgan dollar with the "spitting" eagle rev. There's another nice brown spot right on the Bison's rump. Maybe I could call it the "s_itting" bison rev..
