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<p>[QUOTE="LEG END, post: 1346152, member: 26139"]The good news is they got my sets to me in stupendous time. I ordered on the 10th at 1:30 eastern time. They arrived on the 13th-a Friday. My first tip-off was a scratched box. Not just a little scratch, the box was raked halfway across. Then I opened the coins. The fields look like sand was an important part of the mirrored finish. The shiny fields are not only NOT shiny, they look as if the planchets themselves were part of the flawed minting process. On each and every coin the laser burnishing that creates the matte effect EXTENDED ONTO the mirrored, sand-like fields. Finally, there's the black oil inside the coin container, on the coin itself. Obviously grease-like, it'll be no time before the stain appears. The coins themselves- the actual designs are beautiful, so much so the problems with the coins almost overcomes my distaste with being shipped utter crap. Glad I kept the box, these are not resellable, not even good gifts. I guess the brothers at the mint are laughing at having sent yet another victim their product so quickly. It's just theft, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LEG END, post: 1346152, member: 26139"]The good news is they got my sets to me in stupendous time. I ordered on the 10th at 1:30 eastern time. They arrived on the 13th-a Friday. My first tip-off was a scratched box. Not just a little scratch, the box was raked halfway across. Then I opened the coins. The fields look like sand was an important part of the mirrored finish. The shiny fields are not only NOT shiny, they look as if the planchets themselves were part of the flawed minting process. On each and every coin the laser burnishing that creates the matte effect EXTENDED ONTO the mirrored, sand-like fields. Finally, there's the black oil inside the coin container, on the coin itself. Obviously grease-like, it'll be no time before the stain appears. The coins themselves- the actual designs are beautiful, so much so the problems with the coins almost overcomes my distaste with being shipped utter crap. Glad I kept the box, these are not resellable, not even good gifts. I guess the brothers at the mint are laughing at having sent yet another victim their product so quickly. It's just theft, though.[/QUOTE]
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