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<p>[QUOTE="statequarterguy, post: 2070328, member: 21782"]The mint tells us they have a <b>brilliant</b> finish, so bottom line is they are applying a <b>brilliant</b> finsh to the die. I for one, can tell the difference. Deniers are everywhere, they’re the same ones that didn’t like the satin finish mint sets because they couldn’t fill business strike holes with high quality mint set coins and they lobbied the mint to revert back to business strikes in mint sets (that really helped mint set sales - lol). I like the satins, they’re low mintage unique coins, similar to matte proofs. Can you believe there were actually collectors posting here that said they couldn’t tell the difference between satins and business strikes?</p><p> </p><p>All I can say is beware. Down the road, more collectors may recognize current mint set coins as SMS and the naysayers may be scrambling to find actual high grade business strikes. Even today, are collectors paying high prices for 2012 mint sets simply for the packaging or do they recognize the coins are different? BTW, 2013 mint set sales were lower than 2012. I for one, collect both business strikes and current SMS mint set coins. After looking at literally thousands of them, the difference is like night and day - the business strikes are "frosty" and the mint set coins are <b>"brilliant"</b> because the dies were prepared differently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="statequarterguy, post: 2070328, member: 21782"]The mint tells us they have a [B]brilliant[/B] finish, so bottom line is they are applying a [B]brilliant[/B] finsh to the die. I for one, can tell the difference. Deniers are everywhere, they’re the same ones that didn’t like the satin finish mint sets because they couldn’t fill business strike holes with high quality mint set coins and they lobbied the mint to revert back to business strikes in mint sets (that really helped mint set sales - lol). I like the satins, they’re low mintage unique coins, similar to matte proofs. Can you believe there were actually collectors posting here that said they couldn’t tell the difference between satins and business strikes? All I can say is beware. Down the road, more collectors may recognize current mint set coins as SMS and the naysayers may be scrambling to find actual high grade business strikes. Even today, are collectors paying high prices for 2012 mint sets simply for the packaging or do they recognize the coins are different? BTW, 2013 mint set sales were lower than 2012. I for one, collect both business strikes and current SMS mint set coins. After looking at literally thousands of them, the difference is like night and day - the business strikes are "frosty" and the mint set coins are [B]"brilliant"[/B] because the dies were prepared differently.[/QUOTE]
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