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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;xlrcable, post: 1554196, member: 41288&quot;]Now that I&#039;ve figured out the right terms to search for, I think I&#039;m almost up to speed on this topic.&nbsp; (I&#039;m coming back to collecting after an absence of about 20 years, and to say the landscape has changed is an understatement.)</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I&#039;m still not sure I understand.&nbsp; Apparently the satin finish uncirculated sets of 2005-2010 were conspicuously different from business strikes, so people collect the two separately.&nbsp; My question is about what happened next.&nbsp; I&#039;ve read posts from 2011 in which there seemed to be some doubt about whether the &quot;brilliant&quot; finish resumed in that year for uncirculated sets would actually be distinguishable from new ordinary coins.&nbsp; Even the language at usmint.gov is ambiguous on this point, stating in one place that the uncirculated sets are still struck with specially high force, but implying elsewhere that this is a reversion to historic practice (which I never heard of in the 70s or 80s).&nbsp; My question then is: from 2011, do people still collect &quot;uncirculated&quot; and &quot;circulating&quot; as two separate classes?&nbsp; Or do the satin finish coins from 2005-2010 go down as a temporary abberation?</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously I just need to see these coins for myself.&nbsp; But it can be nice to know what others are thinking before you start buying stuff.&nbsp; Thanks for the help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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