Has anyone received a 2010 Presidential Unc Set and do the coins have the satin finish? Ordered mine today and spoke with The Mint and they said the set does have a satin finish and so will the regular mint set when it's released.
I received about 10 a week or so back. The coins all have the Satin Finish as mandated by current US Mint Policy of using satin finish for all its uncirculated products. Now if they could just fine tune the production of the coins so that they are not all beat to death.................... .................they'd have a good product. BTW, nine sets went back due to scratches, scrapes, and/or dings.
Thanks for the input, guess HSN was wrong - I'll have to watch the show again to see what they say about the satin finish continuing. Yeah, that's what I noticed about the 2007 to 2009 sets, looks like many of the larger coins (halves & dollars) are a little marked up. Any idea, out of the 10 sets you received, approximately what percent of the coins were unacceptable, say less than MS68?
I have wondered about this too. What exactly is the source of all the dings, scratches, and other unwanted whatnots? Is it poor planchet quality or do they just sling/fling these into bags after minting/edging and then give them a good throw/shake before encapsulation. If a coin is straight out of the mint and uncirculated I would like to see better quality. To be frank I've seen and pulled better quality coins out of cashbox change than what comes out in the sets.
Have to agree, after taking all the care to produce better quality coins, The Mint could take a little more care getting them into packages. I'll have to look a little closer at some problem satins, it could be they're not scratched, but suffer from a wearing or improper preparation of the burnished die, causing shiny areas on the coin, as happens on a smaller scale with the proofs. Then again, there are a number of nice 68's, 69's and 70's satins out there and in some of my sets, just seems impossible to get a complete set in good condition. That's why I'm curious as to what other collectors are experiencing - "ballpark", what percent of the coins in the satins sets you have are 68's or higher? I'll post the next time I look through my sets.
this is the reason i have not started collecting these yet. i am to scared, i will get coins that are all dinged up. i will eventually get into it, i know i will not be able to help it.
Perhaps one way would be to purchase graded coins to form a satin set but the prices for high grade coins is a show stopper.
Check out graded 68's, I think they're inexpensive, especially compared to the 69's, which sometimes look worse than the 68's.
