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<p>[QUOTE="xeno, post: 1767471, member: 56455"]I just received my 2 raw sets from the mint today (ordered on 2nd day) in addition to my two slabbed sets. Opened the first one for an eyeball inspection and it looked perfect and then I opened the second one and thought oh no not again, looks like I received someone's rejects because I noticed a dark spot on the enhanced rim and another imperfection that looked like a ding and a bad one at that so I broke out the 15x loupe and it turned out the dark spot is an oily residue and the large ding was capsule damage, other than the enhanced strike being slightly off centered they looked pretty flawless to me. These are staying OGP.</p><p> </p><p>It seems to me that the first releases are the real rejects because there is no way my pcgs 70 is a 70 with the ding I reported earlier and the NGC graded coins look much better however I just don't like the off centered enhance and it also has a tiny sparkle glittering off the field but it's a really small glimmer. When I ordered some regular proofs in January they were good but not as good as the last batch of silver eagle proofs I ordered.</p><p>2 of the proofs I got would qualify as UCAM in my opinion.</p><p> </p><p>No more buying on the first day for me I'll wait for later batches here on out and let the crud go out and get FS 70 designations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xeno, post: 1767471, member: 56455"]I just received my 2 raw sets from the mint today (ordered on 2nd day) in addition to my two slabbed sets. Opened the first one for an eyeball inspection and it looked perfect and then I opened the second one and thought oh no not again, looks like I received someone's rejects because I noticed a dark spot on the enhanced rim and another imperfection that looked like a ding and a bad one at that so I broke out the 15x loupe and it turned out the dark spot is an oily residue and the large ding was capsule damage, other than the enhanced strike being slightly off centered they looked pretty flawless to me. These are staying OGP. It seems to me that the first releases are the real rejects because there is no way my pcgs 70 is a 70 with the ding I reported earlier and the NGC graded coins look much better however I just don't like the off centered enhance and it also has a tiny sparkle glittering off the field but it's a really small glimmer. When I ordered some regular proofs in January they were good but not as good as the last batch of silver eagle proofs I ordered. 2 of the proofs I got would qualify as UCAM in my opinion. No more buying on the first day for me I'll wait for later batches here on out and let the crud go out and get FS 70 designations.[/QUOTE]
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