Well I received my exchanged 2009 SDilver Set today and there are at least two flaws. The Puerto Rico quarter has one leaf missing half its cameo. Roosevelt's face is slightly mottled and has shiny spots in the cameo. The mint and I are going to play 'hot potato' until I get a decent set. I think. If worse comes to worse I'll cancel my order and pay alittle more from a dealer. I do have prepaid postage to return this set. It was supposed to be used for the first set but I got digusted and paid for the postage myself after a month and a half. Then it came. Murphy's Law. Oh well, you guys and gals warned me this might happen. zeke
Sorry to hear you're having such a devil of a time with this issue zeke. Makes me all the more thankful that my sets came in OK.....
I was just reading an article in Coin World about how the Mint is using lasars on some of it's proof coins to produce the frosted cameo effects. Any chance you have some great modern rarity you're trying to return? ...just askin'
I have found that for the modern mint/proof sets it is often better to collect them on the secondary market where they can be typically bought for little premium to the original price yet the transaction can be sight-seen (i.e. you can cherrypick great sets). The only exceptions to this rule may be the "semi-key years" (i.e. 2001) where the premium ends up to be much larger. Fortunately this is unlikely to be the case for this year's sets....Mike
Guess I was lucky mine were very good except the one that had one of the quarters a littlle askew , my only worry was the Lincoln cents & the poor folks that received the spotted ones , mine were nice and shiny : )
Here is a pic of the biggest flaw. it's on the Puerto Rico quarter. IS IT A lasar(laser??) fault or a error that is good to keep?
Here's a picture of what the Puerto Rico Proof Reverse "should" look like... This week's (September 14, 2009) copy of Coin World has a front page article about the Mint's use of lasers to produce the frosted cameo devices on some proof coins. The introduction of this technique began in 2003 for some medals...and in 2004 for the reverses of some proof coins. The article says that high magnification is required to see the differences between coins made from the manually sandblasted/polished die and the automatic polish/laser frosted die. Coin World says... I don't know from this article if the laser process was used on the Puerto Rico proof silver quarter or not. In any event, if you don't like your proof set and don't want to hassle with the Mint, I wouldn't mind taking it off your hands. PM me and let me know. :high5:
Better hang on to your set, that quarter may end up being worth more than the entire set. Its happened more than once...
I would keep it too... it definitely wasn't made right whether it's a strike through or a die problem.... maybe someone forgot to laser that leaf??????
Thanks for all the great advice. I guess I'll just look at it for the next few weeks or so then vacuumize(new word) it in a made to fit food saver polyethylene bag. I do this to all my coins and sets. If I really want to show off a set or two I'll cut them out and rebag them later. Thanks everyone. I love it here. zeke
Dang! I just got "Coin Blocked"! :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
Hey what do you mean, YAKPOO? I'M OPEN to all suggestions. The big drawback on vacuumizing is that visibilty is almost totally lost. zeke
