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United States
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I just received 2 Mint sets and I must say that they are some of the most beat up coins I have ever seen in a set. The quarters are especially bad. Has anyone else had issues with the quality this year?
Mine are going back and I hope to get better ones to replace them.
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United States
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I'm heading to my dealer on Thursday to get one. I'll have to look very close.
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United States
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I opened one set only. I will get a date stamp on the others and market them as early releases, where receiving this set is kind of like being the first in the school to get measles, I think. You are famous, but geez.
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United States
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I received two sets and the one I opened seemed decent quality. Much better than the rolls of Hot Springs and Shield Cents I purchased. I looked over the park Quarters pretty closely in the set and darned if I could really tell if they had a satin finish.
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I haven't received mine yet. I've had a number of problem coins in the past few years but haven't returned a set. This year if there are problems I'm going to send them back and see what happens.
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United States
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Anybody know what they do with returned sets? Do they try to pawn them off on less discerning suspects? Bust them up and throw them in bags/rolls?  |
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Anybody know what they do with returned sets? That's an interesting question. It would be easy to replace a bad coin in a proof set and resell. The mint set is another story. |
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United States
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Question. Who believes that as long as the obverse and reverse look okay with 20/20, you will keep them? Do any of you demand better? Perhaps a 10x loupe?
Okay, so I received 4 sets today. Tomorrow I'm sending the 4 sets back for exchange. I realize with 28 coins, they are not all going to look perfect BUT with 2-3 coins in each set having issues..nope. Hoping that when they get sets back for exchange, the person filling the box might look at the sets a little closer. Issues mostly were with the presidential coins, especially the scratches and gouges on lady libertys arm. The coins with outright gouges were the backs of the quarters. Lastly and most important as a Lincoln collector were the nicks and gouges on the shields. Most issues were on the Philadelphia coins.
Hope to report better results later.
Here is a question. How many of you believe
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United States
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John: Not sure you are going to find many mint sets where every coin looks good especially with a 10x loupe. In addition I believe the mints sets are already packed in sealed boxes so the person who is shipping them to you can't see the coins.
How much is the shipping back to the mint on 4 sets?
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Valued Member
United States
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Someone else does alway seem to get high grade coins to assemble sets with. It is appalling that the mint cannot include at least five or six gradable coins. But just think if they just up and quit producing mint sets, making the quarters, halves, and others available only in change. After them doing that just one year we'd be nonplussed. I think I'll go open a second set. Maybe find a high grade.
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United States
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S&H was $5 to get them to me. Not sure if return shipping will be the same.
Edit: Ended up costing $12. We'll see how it goes next time.
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07/29/2010 7:43 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah I figured 4 sets would be several pounds. I knew it was going to cost more than $4.95. Especially with DC and if you included insurance.
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Valued Member
 United States
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I just looked at mine with a 5x Mag and the Dollars had minor issues that I could have lived with but the majority of the quarters had DEEP gouges on the reverse. I have gotten better looking coins from the bank. Of course, they were not Satin finish.
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United States
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I ended up keeping one and sending back 3. At first I thought they might actually treat exchanges differently. Perhaps taking a better look before putting them in that cardboard box. Who knows though. Maybe they just throw another 3 sealed packages back in a box and call it good.
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United States
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Well it is worth opening a second set if you bought one. When we opened our second set, there were a whole two sleeves of great, possibly submittable coins. Only the Lincoln Golden Dollar had gouges visible without a magnifier. So there are indeed great Mint Sets in this mailing for us to scour through, just gotta open more than one set, it appears. Keep looking.
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United States
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My uncirculated set came and it looks great!! I didn't see a problem really with any of the coins... no visible scratches, gouges, luster problems...nothing. Looked at under magnification and still much the same... I think my set is definitely a set to consider submitting.
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