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Valued Member
United States
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I bough uncirculared liberatads that had excessive bag marks, and philharmonics with milk spots. Are these problems greater for certain mints? And are some mints known for other problems? I may have just gotten a bad group of coins, but I stopped buying from the dealer who sent them out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Canadian Maples are known for their milk spots.
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Canada
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India only has four mints (although contracts go all over the world: I have Indian coins made in Ottawa, Daegu, and Moscow), but it is the second most populated country in the world, so we have a case here of quantity over quality. Full strikes are rare - Cuds, die cracks, etc. are all very common. One CCF member has an Indian coin that got stuck in the machine and was struck over 100 times... |
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United States
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I collect both Libertads and Philharmonics and have never gotten either with bag marks or milk spots.
I think your dealer is buying impaired "seconds" and selling them as something other than just bullion, which in that condition, is all they are.
That has to do with your dealer, nothing to do with either mint. Both of which are two of the oldest and most outstanding world mints.
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United States
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As an opposing perspective, I'm currently in Thailand and amazed at the quality of the coins for a supposedly "developing" country. These were randomly pulled from circulation. (1, 2, 5 and 10 baht)  |
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United States
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There's this big important country between Mexico and Canada whose one cent coin struck at its mints which are covered with black spots ( and they seem not to care)
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01/17/2014 05:47 am
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Valued Member
Canada
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I collect Canadian Maples and never had any with milk spots. Canadian Maples are also the purest in the world at .9999
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 United States
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There's this big important country between Mexico and Canada whose one cent coin struck at its mints which are covered with black spots ( and they seem not to care) The fact that this big important country is still minting cents is a problem in itself.  |
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Canada
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The fact that this big important country is still minting cents is a problem in itself. I absolutely do not miss the penny since Canada stopped minting them. |
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United States
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I absolutely do not miss the penny since Canada stopped minting them. question,have they disappeared from circulation yet? Or pretty much disappeared? |
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Canada
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It took a few months for the pennies to disapear from circulation completely. They do remain legal tender, but haven't seen any in close to a year.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I absolutely do not miss the penny since Canada stopped minting them. But did they also stop CENTS?   Here in the USA we need those little things. Our government makes them only to give people something to complain about so they stop bugging the government so called workers. As to your question about Mints. Mints are places where people work. People are people and they make lots of errors all the time. Just human nature. Edited by just carl
01/18/2014 10:03 am
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Canada
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Border towns still see the penny in Ontario due to the U.S. influx. I Keep all I get. Getting back to mints. It used to be that Winnipeg made more errors than Ottawa at one time. Could be because of volume. I don't think it's an issue any longer and all I remember is Canada.
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United States
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I have not had any issues with any Canadian silver coins (2012's & 2013's), same with Mexico (2009-2013). I bought a Philharmonic (2013) and it does have milk spots along the rim of the coin. 2013 was the first year I bought some Britannia's due to The Royal Mint raised the fineness of these coins to .999 Ag. No spotting issues with these either. |
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