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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 8171948, member: 105098"]oh, and Jarden Zinc, was Alltrista Zinc Products Company, was Ball Corporation, who has had the contract to supply the blanks since the beginning. (originally Ball Brothers, makes the Mason jars and Zinc Jar lids) I don't know if anyone else actually was involved in the production of cent blanks though early on, Ball subsidiaries have had the contract since 1981. In 1993, Alltrista Zinc Products Co. was spun off by Ball Corporation with seven other divisions to create Alltrista, which is now Jarden Corporation.THIS may have occurred due to the low quality of the 1980s blanks, and the need for Ball to rebrand to Alltrista, then to Jarden, maybe lower quality by having too many things going on? Still no idea why it seems Denver got the worst of the blanks through, the 80s and early 1990s. I've been trying to figure that one question out for a while, I don't find the smoking gun as to why it happened but clearly they got poorer quality or produced poorer quality, for that entire decade roughly. I don't think it's just random chance although it can occur randomly, it was way too widespread during that 10 year period for it to just be random, and you'd of seen more of it from Philly than what occurred. Anywho. it's a conundrum that probably the mint or Jarden could answer only most likely.[/QUOTE]