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Message:: [QUOTE="dannic113, post: 1678702, member: 35203"]Just my two cents on things. First as GDJMSP stated the spots are NOT milk spots. Milk spots were caused by the mint not rinsing the soap used to clean proof coins completely off. It was then struck into the coin forming a chemical bond that is forever with the coin. These white and sometimes tan spots are something that the mint or their distributors are doing or not doing after the coins are struck. Conservation efforts by NGC and PCGS are having luck removing most of them. Although they admit proofs are easier to restore than mint state. Second, as the problem is a mint or bullion distributor issue storage isn't the concern from what I am reading. The coins will certainly haze, tarnish, or even tone as the coffins are not 100% air and water tight; but they will not develop these particular spots from storage, humidity or the plastic. Personally I believe quality control is simply not caring anymore or told not to care. I say this because this seems to be a newer issue not found in earlier years. Plus the pressure to get as many of these out the door as possible to meet world demand lends itself to an environment of quantity over quality. The only real problem I've ever had with ASE's and I can't say that the mint was at fault as the packaging may have been from a distributor but I had two raw eagles in velvet boxes that someone decided the best thing to do was put the COA on the coin. So I had one that was a dark royal blue crescent that I wish had been on a Morgan instead and the other that was the red/orange color of dried and washed blood. Made the coin look like a sunset instead of a sunrise.   <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=112" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=112"></a>[/QUOTE]

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