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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2032769, member: 15929&quot;]It is not an error from the mint. It is a packaging defect and opening the plastic lens does not require any &quot;breaking&quot; at all. These have tops and bottoms and the tops are NOT sealed on so removing the top is as easy as opening a can of pringles. As such, removing the hair or contaminant does nothing to &quot;lower the mintage of these sets&quot; but instead preserves the integrity of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You asked what caused this and with the Cleveland, I told you. These are not packaged in clean rooms and occasionally, contaminants do get introduced which, up until 1999, presented a problem.&nbsp; The Johnson, however, is a different story since that appears to be a die scratch which could not be removed without damaging the coin. That one, could be considered a mint error, but not the Cleveland.</p><p>But, you&#039;ll never really know until you look at the coin with out the plastic now will you?</p><p><br /></p><p>Since were on the subject, I&#039;ve got a 1972-S Proof Eisenhower Dollar that has a bug entombed with it in the OGP.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370097[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note how the contaminant has clouded the surface of the coin?</p><p>But, since these slabs were actually &quot;glued&quot; shut, removing the bug would literally &quot;break&quot; the plastic slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would a &quot;bug&quot; in the OGP be considered a &quot;mint error&quot; coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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