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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 731889, member: 112&quot;]It really doesn&#039;t have much to do with the slab. It has more to do with the coins themselves, epsecially those early ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a large number of the satin finish Mint Set coins that do not have a satin finish at all. Take the coin direct from a sealed box from the mint, and it sometimes could not be distinguished at all from a business strike. Yet, they were labeled as satin finish because they cam from the sealed box so there was no question.</p><p><br /></p><p>But - break those same coins out of the sets and submit them, and they often came back labeled as business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was and may still be, a quality issue, nothing more. The satin finish is due to die preparation and it soon wears off. Let the mint use the dies just a&nbsp; bit too long, and the satin finish is very faint or gone completely. </p><p><br /></p><p>So it would be all too easy for the TPG to not identify a given coin as having the satin finish. But it would not&nbsp; be a mistake on their part. It is because there is no satin finish.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, yes labeling errors do happen. But for this particular case, it far more likely the former.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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