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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Worse than ever.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Who did the sandblasting?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
I agree. I bought the set for the reverse designs. The frosting on the obverse is coarse and distracting. The combination of ultra-low relief & sandblasted frosting just leaves a silhouette of the queen. All of her features have been lost in the sandstorm.
Something must have went wrong in the manufacturing. It's hard to believe it was done on purpose...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It's hard to believe it was done on purpose... which do you think is cheaper to do, ultra-low relief & coarse finish or the high detailed frosting of yore. |
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Valued Member
Canada
457 Posts |
I think they should blast that picture of the Queen right off .... then they could put a nicer one on ;-)
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2408 Posts |
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I bought the set for the reverse designs Me too.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
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which do you think is cheaper to do, ultra-low relief & coarse finish or the high detailed frosting of yore. A rhetorical question, no doubt. Perhaps a junior engraver was instructed to go nuts with the laser etcher? This side of the coin won't be winning any awards. |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Is it this set that contains the offensive coins.I was going to order one,the pic at the mint seems to show brilliant on brilliant,but the description says proof finish. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
I'm ashamed on the Mints behalf.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2408 Posts |
Yes DBM, this is the offending set. It is nothing like what is displayed on the RCM site. Look at the Queen for instance.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Not sure if I've missed her exit, but input from the RCM rep would be nice right now |
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RCM Representative
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Just checking in and will certainly pass this string of feedback/opinions along to the right people at the Mint.
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Valued Member
Canada
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How does quality get worse over time? You would think the technology would only get better?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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technology getting better means naught when the motivation to apply the new tech is not there. Props to RCM with getting a rep on the forum and she's been great with responses and forwarding info back to the mint, but I'm still feeling the pessimist at the moment. With polls on this subforum getting under 30 participants, even assuming there are 10x the readership, I don't think there are sufficient buying power on this forum to sway RCM's actions one way or another. Especially when the gist I'm getting is that we are still buying up the lower quality coins. Edited to add pessimistic outlook Edited by poboxw
12/13/2011 11:43 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just wondering here...if they chose this kind of frosting for the geometric reverse design, which obviously doesn't work well for the portrait?
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Posted 12/10/2011 4:21 pm
