Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3125241, member: 66&quot;]I understood, that, I just believe that if you removed those coins from the silver proof sets you would see a big loss of interest in them because they are no longer a full set of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want better quality control of circulation coinage you are going to have to somehow greatly reduce the amount of coinage produced.&nbsp; Right now they run the dies into the ground, reduced the relief, lower pressure, and run presses faster to keep up with demand.&nbsp; The result is often sub-par coins.&nbsp; Part of the problem is that the coins are so worthless now that more and more coinage is becoming &quot;single use&quot;, Mint to the banks to businesses to consumer to change jar where it stays and has to be replaced with another new coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That may be true with earlier mint sets, but most everything I have seen for sets of say the past ten years has been markedly superior to the circulation strikes.&nbsp; Sure every now and then you&#039;ll see a poor quality recent mint set coin, but typically they are very nice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in