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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1319586, member: 112&quot;]That is partly why I asked you in the other post about the dates. In 2005 when they first started producing the satin Mint Sets the quality of the coins was terrible. Many of the coins didn&#039;t even have the satin finish, and on many others the satin finish was only present on part of the coin. There was a reason for this. It was the first time the had tried it with Mint Sets so they made mistakes. Their biggest mistake was using the dies too long, the satin finish on the dies quite simply wore away with metal flow.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2006 the mint tried to correct this but they didn&#039;t quite get there. They still had problems. This continued but it did get better with time. They learned from their mistakes and they began striking fewer and fewer coins with each die. The problem was not strike pressure. Mint Sets have been struck with higher pressure since the &#039;90s, that remained the same. The Mint Set strikes falling into a hopper also remained the same. Evidence for this is the best we could ever hope for - the coins themselves. The coins tell the story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go back through this forum&#039;s old post for the past 6 years, or any forum&#039;s. Read how many complaints there are about quality with the Mint Sets. Right up until they quit producing the satin finish. The satin finish was the problem - it shows almost everything, a lot like Proofs do. And it was costing them a fortune because they could get no life out of the dies. And they were getting too many complaints and returns. So they gave it up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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