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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 856515, member: 19065"]There's nothing lowly about the Mint's practice. It has become a problem due to a certain increasing number of members of the public who buy directly from the US Mint with an unrealistic expectation of coin perfection as defined by TPGs employing the Sheldon 70 point grading scale, which the US Mint never made any such claims of guarantee to their customers. You will not get them to mark the returns and sell them for cheaper to you? What do you propose that they put a chop mark hammered into the surface of the coin to indicate it's been returned? How are they going to do this? One by one, by hand? At whose expense? This would only increase the retail price of their products overall and ruin a batch of coins that you perfectionist would never want because it would become bullion not collectible numismatic issues... think about it before you cast the fault on the Mint. The TPGs and the collectors of slabs who agree to the 70 point system as defining perfection are to blame for the vast majority of coins returned to the Mint. The Mint has every right and intent to resell products it deems meet their quality control and in new salable condition. Period.[/QUOTE]