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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1020334, member: 15445&quot;]<b>Food for thought.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>They could limit the number of finishes &amp; metals with which they manufacture our coins.&nbsp; I’ve recently been putting together a complete set of 2009 coins &amp; it includes something like 80+ different coins now.&nbsp; There are four cents and each of them is available in proof finish, satin finish and business strike finish.&nbsp; I heard rumor that the mint made some copper cents &amp; some copper coated zinc in some year(s).&nbsp; There are a similar bunch of nickels, dimes, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, halves, &amp; dollars.&nbsp; All these are available in proof manufacture, mint set satin finish, and business strike finish.&nbsp; We have silver proofs &amp; clad proofs (and those include all the darn quarters).&nbsp; It adds up to a crazy number of coins to get one of each type made by the mint.&nbsp; The cost of the collection &amp; number of coins increases significantly if you include all the gold coin variants.&nbsp; I sort of long for the old days when the options were simply either proof manufacture &amp; business strike for our circulating coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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