I am new here, so maybe this is already addressed. I bought some rolls from a seller in PR, great seller with superfast delivery. I had my rolls before the official release. He had 50 dollar sealed bags, plastic, of rolls. I opened several rolls and these rolls stopped me in my tracks. I found seven different die cracks among them, all different. The US Mint promoted their Feb release as first release, but these were out, so that is a fiction. I thought: maybe these were first strikes- test runs of the first dies to ensure worthiness. Then they could not bear to just discard them, so instead sent them to the abyss in the south. What do you call these, anyway? I am at a loss. The rolls are spectacularly flawed beauties. A tragic success. Any thoughts on this. The seller ran out before I got a second batch.
Quarters. One you have no way of proving when you actually got them, and two the mint creates stockpiles before they start shipping the coins out so there is no way to know if yours were early, or the last ones struck befor e they started shipping them out. And remember they shipped them to the banks two to four weeks before the official release date.
Audit trail. I made sure I kept rolls postmarked from Puerto Rico which I received b4 the actual mint release. Moreover, with those dies, die patterns can be matched to early releases in Puerto Rico and compared to Stateside. I just gotta add that I have not ever, never, and I do mean never happened before, pulled seven DIFFERENT die cracks in one roll. Also included- a doubled lobe. Got that tidbit? I have kept this stuff in reserve. I think the mint committed fraud calling their ceremony early release or first release, when rolls were on EBAY weeks before. Kind of irritated me, the sheer misspeak of their marketing and all. That's why I kept dated rolls from PR. And any good attributer could build a die pair profile of the PR releases, and that would produce it's own unique story about just how and why the Mint misled us on the 2010 releases. I hope this answers your conjecture-filled questions.:smile
