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<p>[QUOTE="Whizb4ng, post: 1945522, member: 54140"]I know a lot of people are echoing that sentiment and that the quality of mint product is going downhill. I think the mint justifies so many different designs by keeping the mintages low. They also provide a wildly diverse set of designs for their coins. There are dinosaur coins, animal coins, historical coins, 'haunted' coins, and flowery coins. Then they couple that with an additional technique such as glow in the dark, colour, or even venetian glass. From there they have the option of denomination be it a quarter, half ounce silver, ounce silver, and various gold and platinum sizes.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me it is easy to see how the RCM produces so many different coins a year. Long term I doubt it will be viable but for the time being people are buying so the mint will keep on producing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have much mint product but there are a couple of coins on the wishlist and the nice thing about living 5 minutes from the mint is I can convince my family members to buy presents for me there and avoid all the usual junk they get me for presents![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Whizb4ng, post: 1945522, member: 54140"]I know a lot of people are echoing that sentiment and that the quality of mint product is going downhill. I think the mint justifies so many different designs by keeping the mintages low. They also provide a wildly diverse set of designs for their coins. There are dinosaur coins, animal coins, historical coins, 'haunted' coins, and flowery coins. Then they couple that with an additional technique such as glow in the dark, colour, or even venetian glass. From there they have the option of denomination be it a quarter, half ounce silver, ounce silver, and various gold and platinum sizes. For me it is easy to see how the RCM produces so many different coins a year. Long term I doubt it will be viable but for the time being people are buying so the mint will keep on producing. I don't have much mint product but there are a couple of coins on the wishlist and the nice thing about living 5 minutes from the mint is I can convince my family members to buy presents for me there and avoid all the usual junk they get me for presents![/QUOTE]
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