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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2148875, member: 71234&quot;]This may be a silly question, but why does the mint not step up quality control so all output is checked for perfection (maybe another $10 - $15 per set) and cut out all this nonsense? </p><p><br /></p><p>Does not this whole process of taking a new product from a factory and paying someone else as much as the original cost of the item to inspect it and possibly find fault with it&nbsp; seem just a little bit insane? </p><p><br /></p><p>It also seems essential that the mint production be a least a bit under optimum, on average, so that if by some fluke they do do the job properly, that set may be worth a tad more money than another apparently identical set. If they get it just right, all sets are perfect and no-one has anything special.</p><p><br /></p><p>You do all know, I hope, that as soon as the mint have shifted enough of these sets to show some sort of profit, they will find some other cockamamie thing to commemorate, and so on ad infinitum. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is numismatics flying in smaller and smaller circles till it flies up its own anal orifice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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