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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 709503, member: 16510&quot;]<b>No good sorry, I could drive a truck thru this.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No good sorry, I could drive a truck thru this post or in southern terms &quot;it don&#039;t mean nothing much less addreses nothing&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First we are not talking about copper coated zinc cents!&nbsp; We are talking only about the returned to copper composition for 2009 Lincoln Cent mint set and proof set issued coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The issue is why with 3 quarters of a century worth of experience in coining all copper cents is the mint having such problems with this brief return to something they should know better than anything in the world about, ok?</p><p>We have opened proof sets sitting around from the 1950&#039;s and 60&#039;s with perfect red non-toned copper cents in them.&nbsp; We have rolls 40, 50, 60 years old still very red and not very toned.&nbsp; No, not all are still red and not toned but there is hundreds of millions if not billions are not toned!&nbsp; So the mint is making new coins out of that same stuff, why the problems?&nbsp; Why are many, many of those proof sets already (even back in June, just days after their shipping) target toned?</p><p>Why the delay and warnings regaring these new copper cents???</p><p>It don&#039;t make any sense,&nbsp; what&#039;s not being said or left out???</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only thing it could be is some sort of treatment the copper planchets or cents are being exposed to now that they were not before.&nbsp; That or some type of heating, packaging process that is different or new that was not used in the past.&nbsp; It is very very suspect.&nbsp; These things or they bought bad copper???&nbsp; Did they buy them all (the planchets) and make the decision to use them before or after knowing they would not hold up well???&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s the anti-tarnish???&nbsp; Did they use that on cents back in the day???</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Somthings missing that&#039;s the question.&nbsp; Knowing how much in denial the mint (or any Govt. agency) is until thier hand is called is what I&#039;m talking about.&nbsp; I mean if you don&#039;t see in this a &quot;big somethings missing&quot; or a &quot;gosh, this don&#039;t make no sense&quot;, then just move on down the line because you&#039;ve been had or do not care.&nbsp; That&#039;s okay but if your going to comment at least put some thought into your statements, questions and don&#039;t tell us what we already know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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