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Valued Member
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I know a girl that works at the mint fulfillment center in Plainfield, IN. They are not "Mint employees", they work for Pitney Bowes who is contracted by the mint to do the fulfillment of phone and online orders. According to her they all hate their jobs because they are treated without respect and are not allowed to make suggestions to make things better. They must follow government working procedures that are overly cumbersome and meaningless. They see the problems with the quality but Pitney Bowes is in such hot water with the Mint that they are told to just ship it out in order to make daily shipping quotas. Quality is definitely NOT job one. As to why your order takes so long to get to you... gold sales are the top priority. Gold goes before anything else.
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Valued Member
 United States
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I will try to post better pictures later tonight
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just collected my set from the PO, just wait till you see the pics, unless someone wants the coins it will be going back.
There are a couple of rarities inside.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Something tells me itrooper is too young to remember the era before "spaghetti hair".
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Valued Member
United States
106 Posts |
Ha! I just started collecting this year, but I am in my late 30's. Here is a better scan  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1729 Posts |
I just saw one of these sets tonight. The reverses are sharp and nicely designed (unlike the committee design of many of the State Quarter reverses). The obverse of the quarters ... what were they thinking? FAIL! This looks like a refugee from a soap dish. |
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And I thought that Washington was looking weak on the circulation strikes.  I supposed that it is a good thing that I put these coins in my Dansco album reverse side up.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just got my proof sets. The Presidential Proofs may be worse than last year. How is this for spots.  I think these quarters were opened and returned then resent judging by their position.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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A number of factors are at work here: 1. A return to the 1932 hair line design, but...2. With much lower relief than used in 1932, (at this point, the non-Proof obverses still look decent in MS grade) 3. Then, add in the new etched style of Proof dies (that already reduced the visibility of the hair lines in 2009), and presto: "Sandblasted George!"  Re. my 2010 Silver Quarters Set: The reverses are nice, and they're 90% Silver!  Edited by DNA
08/03/2010 7:30 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is absolutely no excuse for any of these coins to have spots or smudges or to be rotated in their cases. Its plain and simple in my book, Fire the company that puts these sets together.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here is one pic from my set, Lincoln Presidential dollar, It is a bit of a rarity showing the lathe rings, my set has two, Lincoln and Pierce are both like this on the obverse.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey, that looks like the rings of the log that Abe chopped down on the LP2 Cent!  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Lol DNA. Metalman, besides that being yet another example of the Mint's craptacular production, what a great photo! I am really impressed with the detail you achieved at such a small image size. How did you do that?
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Pillar of the Community
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itrooper, my images are mediocre at best, there are many who are much better, these were shot with the camera hand held at about 4 inches from the coin, a little cropping to the edges and then re sized to 1000x1000 and down loaded to my galley here on CCF.
3 more posts and you will have the same advantage ! ;-))
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