New Daniel Carr over-strike coins

All I can think is they just decided not to go to the effort, instead applying the same production techniques they'd use for a planned mintage of a billion in the interest of "knocking out the job" without the wastage and quick wear/broken dies inherent in creating quality design.

Craftsmanship isn't a part of Mint culture any more. Only profit.

 

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Agreed. Do they really think they can make us believe that they couldn't have done it if they wanted to. Oh wait, they're part of the government. That's standard modus operandi

 

Well a lot of people did seem to believe they couldn't do it so maybe they are smarter than we give them credit for. They did just fine even with their minimal effort on those. If they ever want to be players in the international market this type of effort won't fly, but they're in no danger of not doing fine domestically for quite sometime

 

And that's the point. We're still all "Shut up and take my money!" as it is, and they don't need to do any better.

 

That has to make it difficult for folks to work there if they have more talent than average.

 

Exactly, and until our buying behavior changes there's won't. Unfortunately I doubt our buying behavior changes either.

 

I did not buy any of the gold dimes. I might wait for the price to comes down some, and then buy a couple to experiment with and maybe try over-striking as one of my current fantasy dates ("1933-D" for example).

 

Dan, can't you just make it with fsb and sharp details as your 'signature' with no change whatsoever other than that; or is that hugging the line too much?

 

Adding full bands and a "DC" mark to the US Mint's 2016 gold dimes, while keeping everything else the same, is something that I might consider.

 

Any chance of doing any of them in platinum?

 

Putting a "correct" date on a creation is probably a line he doesn't want to step over.

 

I'll send you mine just for that purpose. TC

 

Yeah, maybe, but he did it with the 2009 ase just a different finish and his DC mark. In this case the different finish would be the fsb and sharp details. Whatever he does though, the market is ripe for him to "fix" these

 

Now there's an idea! He charges say $100or whatever he would have charged over issue had he purchased them himself. You send yours in and he "corrects" them. This is a very novel idea! The first "mint to order under the moonlight" o/s offering

 

If this were to happen, I would also send in mine. About the date, I would go with the 1915 date or a future date like 2017 or 2018 or something that would not violate any Federal rules. I would leave that up to Carr

 

Me too.

 

I already PMed him asking if he would like me to send him one... haha. I think he wants to experiment on his own first.

 

Let's not get too hyped up yet guys. Let's just give him some feedback & ideas on what we may like him to do and let him play around with it all. The mint gave him a gift here. I mean, we're all talking about these and every thread since release, on just about every coin forum, has mentioned that dan could've don't a much better job and we wish he is going to do something to fix these crap-sandwich bullion "tributes" so business acumen dictates he should do something. The hamster in his head is spinning now and we're all on pins & needles

If he does let people send theirs in I see 2 problems...

1) he might say that the exact one(s) you send in might not be the exact "coin(s)" you get back as keeping them all tracked might prove to be too much of a hassle. But who really cares right?
2) and what about those that didn't buy one hoping for dan to do them? He would also have to buy some and do his own for those people like me I guess.

Whatever he does though will be of a far higher caliber than the US mint

 

If I do these, it might be as an over-striking service. The customer supplies the coin and I over-strike it. That is how I did it a few years ago with these:
http://www.dc-coin.com/coloradogold...eergold1troyoz999satinfinish-1-1-1-2-1-1.aspx

 

This has really blossomed into an interesting and informative thread........and very few cat fights.