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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 624645, member: 8033&quot;]Howdy folks! Clembo&#039;s a bit ornery tonight - what can I say? Figured I&#039;d share it with y&#039;all.</p><p><br /></p><p>It concerns the new Lincoln Cents and SO many modern coins for that matter. Be advised I don&#039;t collect these nor do I really plan to. Everyone has their own tastes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, the rant? It&#039;s errors and the frequency of same. Is there at least one error on EVERY U.S. coin made these days? At times it seems there are several to me. Usually they are just plain miniscule and mass produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many LP2 die doubling errors are there now? This on a brand new coin with state of the art technology?</p><p><br /></p><p>Today my boss asked me why I hadn&#039;t mentioned a big die crack on a Lincoln as pictured in CoinWorld I believe. My response? - because I don&#039;t care.</p><p>There are so many &quot;errors&quot; on modern stuff it can make your head spin. Most require magnification. They are minor yet heavily &quot;published&quot; in coin mags.</p><p>Show me some real errors for a change. The last I remember was the 2008 reverse of 07 silver eagle. At least one doesn&#039;t need a loupe to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some type of &quot;error&quot; found on almost every Presidential dollar and coins of the quarter program as well. Now it&#039;s the Lincolns.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why don&#039;t I hear about teeny errors on the other coins as much? Is it because the buyer base isn&#039;t really there as much?</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint is producing a lot of shoddy coins folks. I sell the &quot;big in demand&quot; coins all day and the quality is absolutely horrible IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>People will pay crazy money for an MS67 2009 Lincoln and, although I wouldn&#039;t, I can actually see why to an extent. True high grade coins are scarce.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many Lincolns will be found with an &quot;extra finger&quot; that one can see at 20x magnification? How much will people pay for that &quot;error&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quality of coins being minted, the coverage of &quot;errors&quot; and what people will pay for them is becoming a joke to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Give me real errors. A Lincoln I&#039;d like? 1955 DDO.</p><p><br /></p><p>My rant is through for now. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>clembo[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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