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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1045079, member: 19065&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b>The 2010-W Proof American Silver Eagle has finally landed for many a collector! :thumb:</b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b>A welcome site after the drought of nearly two years without proof versions. </b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b></b><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_Pr_ASE_A_1600pxl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b>Here are the eight 2010-W Proof ASEs I ordered/received:</b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_Pr_ASE_Group.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=132743&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz16bddRo3x" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=132743&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz16bddRo3x"><br /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=132743&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz16bddRo3x" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=132743&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz16bddRo3x"><br /></a></span></p><p>I find the quality of the strikes is very nice and what we&#039;ve come to expect of these coins. I have not found any breaks in the&nbsp; frosted devices and despite the grainy quality of the frosted effect, its not as&nbsp; bothersome as I was worried about beforehand. I was worried it would look cheap and could obliterate small details in the design.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Unfortunately</i>, I have found this&nbsp; faint &#039;haze&#039; which appears in the mirrored fields. It is so faint that it is almost transparent and requires close inspection to really see the extent of its prescience on the surface of the coins. I use a&nbsp; 5x aspheric Bausch &amp; Lomb loupe, and these spots are as clear as day under&nbsp; magnification with proper illumination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Five to six of the eight coins I received have this haze. The haze&nbsp; appears most prominently under IGWT and up to the &#039;Y&#039; of LIBERTY on the&nbsp; obverse of a few coins. It also extends from the wingtips of the eagle on the reverse and appears around the devices nearest the rims overall. </p><p><br /></p><p>Below are several examples from a few of the coins I received&nbsp; that show the &#039;haze&#039; I am speaking about seeing in the mirrored fields. Again, it <u>can</u>&nbsp; be seen with the naked eye, but it really comes out under light&nbsp; magnification and when a strong light at a rather severe angle hits the&nbsp; coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>These images were hard for me to take juggling an LED flashlight, 5x&nbsp; aspheric loupe and pressing the shutter button on my tripod mounted&nbsp; camera simultaneously.</p><p><br /></p><p>I highly recommend everyone, especially those with large orders of these&nbsp; coins, check your coins with a bright lamp under magnification.&nbsp; Rotate the coin as you look in the regions of IGWT, the eagle&#039;s wing&nbsp; tip areas and around the devices nearest the rim. </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps this is something akin to &#039;milk spots&#039; known to plague bullion ASEs, which refuses to get washed off after production. I&#039;m not sure what it is from and I don&#039;t like it on my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coins will be returned to the Mint with a detailed return invoice and&nbsp; images so their Quality Control and Order Control can see the reason for&nbsp; the returned items. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this is helpful to other Proof ASE collectors and that others will chime in here if you find similar issues with your 2010-W Proof ASE coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_01a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_08.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_03.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_09.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_07.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_06.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US%20Coins%20-%20ASE/2010W_PR_ASE_Haze_R_05.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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