US Mint releasing impaired proof coins?

So you are saying that your "free" proof set was probably picked over and that was the remnants of probably other impaired proof set coins.

 

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If the Dansco has cardboard in it, that could be the start of your problem. In 60+ years of collecting, I have never stored Proof coins in those types of albums. I have used Capital Plastics, slabs or the original mint package.

This Is why I am not a fan of red copper. Sometimes it seems to “go bad” out of spite. I know that there is really nothing else to collect for the modern coins of say the last 50 or 60 years. I don’t like messing with it, especially the Proof pieces. Preserving them with the red color is like trying to save a snowball for the 4th of July.

 

You are correct of course, it's the cardboard. But when the holes are there I feel the need to keep the sets complete this way. I do however like the toning of my silver and nickel coins, none of which has gone over the top.

 

Why's everyone commenting half a year later? lol

 

from post #16 forward ... we're all ZOMBIE's !!

 

I had a red 1903 indian head cent in my 7070. Looked at it 3 months later and it was beginning to turn brown especially on the reverse. Took it out and I've kept it in an airtite ever since. For what I know all copper will turn brown whether it takes a month or a hundred years.

 

New member resurrected it from the dead.

 

Not complaining, just thought it was kinda weird .

 

Because problems with red copper never go away. They are eternal. That’s why I don’t like it.

 

This is precisely why I hate owning “red” coins. I prefer nicely-toned brown coins. Brown coins are also much cheaper