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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1942475, member: 19065&quot;]Coin pet peeves:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin legislation and the US Mint for permitting any group with the money to lobby or coerce legislators with these profit making sales objects (coins) signed into law to be minted for promoting just about any group, organization or anniversary as a &quot;commemorative&quot;. That&#039;s what private mints (Franklin, New York, PobJoy, et al.) were (are) for.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the same, for introducing marketing gimmicks that have turned the mint into a factory churning out several NIFC collectible &quot;products&quot; (not coins) every year, which are &quot;consumed&quot; by greed, and increasingly less so by &quot;coin collectors.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>An anniversary coin for the 50th year of the Kennedy coin design isn&#039;t special it&#039;s a gimmick struck in as many varieties as possible to convince enough people to buy them. The 75th anniversary of the SF Mint (in it&#039;s current building) issued as a special Silver Eagle coin set which amounted to an anniversary for a mint at a given address, and not recognizing the actual full historical anniversary of the Mint branch in SF going back to the 1850s. Marketing gimmicks like limited new coin releases to those able to attend major coin shows, while others have to wait months to take delivery of new coins. Marketing teams trying to create &quot;firsts&quot; and one-time only offerrings, then over-turning them a few years later: Reverse Proofs are growing in numbers, now it&#039;s domed-coins... Also the skimping on quality by flaunting new technology, laser etched dies, as better than traditionally struck proof coins-- the comparison of newer coins to older proofs is huge. The current techniques look crude and blanket the coins&#039; already weak designs as the <i>applied proof-effect</i>, they are. New technology such as this has one goal in mind, maintaining profits, ahead of and not for, quality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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