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Pillar of the Community
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I can't wait to hear/read more news about this....
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Valued Member
 United States
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Per the link supplied by Atlas642 on the last page, it looks like this bill became law on 12/4. In addition to specifying that the 2016 proof and uncirculated silver eagles are to be made with "a smooth edge incused with a designation that notes the 30th anniversary of the first issue of [these] coins", this law also changes Title 31, US Code Section 5112 by striking "90 percent silver and 10 percent copper" and inserting "not less than 90 percent silver" in a couple places. I guess this gives the mint the option of making the silver proof sets out of .9999 silver in addition to 90% silver.
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Moderator
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I guess this gives the mint the option of making the silver proof sets out of .9999 silver in addition to 90% silver. It better be 99.99% instead of 90%. I am not buying two silver proof sets each year.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A silver proof set and a super silver proof set, perhaps?  |
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Moderator
United States
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 I only have one silver hole in the albums. If they opt to do two versions I will stick with the 90%.  However, I doubt they will do both. The whole point of using 99.99% is to save money. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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...and now ALL the silver coins can get milk spots  |
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United States
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That did not occur to me until you mentioned it.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Quote:...and now ALL the silver coins can get milk spots I posted an article in another thread stating that one of the reasons to go for 99.9% is to prevent copper-saturation-related spotting. I guess it's pick your poison. But I'd rather them be 99.9%.  @jbuck - we already have various missing holes in our albums (For-cirulation S ATBs, etc.)... what's another few? |
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@jbuck - we already have various missing holes in our albums (For-cirulation S ATBs, etc.)... what's another few? Exactly why it bugs me.  The list of exceptions is getting bigger. Adding a page for the quarters is no big deal, but this would really mess up the other albums.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I wonder how hard it would be for Dansco and the other album manufacturers to offer custom pages.... probably been discussed somewhere on here before but that would be nice.
One would order from the existing menu of pages (hole sizes) but be able to customize the page title and printing on each hole... offer modifiable templates and let the user community upload templates, etc.
I think people would be willing to pay a premium to cover the extra costs associated. Myself definitely included.
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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry everyone, poor choice of words on my part. I meant .9999 silver INSTEAD of 90% silver. Once again, apologies.
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United States
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Ah. I see. Never mind.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is dependent upon the coins passing modern political correctness criteria, i.e., they need to make sure the old coin designs don't depict any negative connotations such as slavery, etc. jbuck said: Quote:
This country is run by ignoramuses. Whoa there jbuck - this is not politically correct! You are discriminating against ignoramuses. Plus you are insulting all ignoramuses by lumping DC lawmakers in with them. You need to discipline yourself now by watching 42 hours straight of mainstream "news" media.  |
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Nope. I stand by what I said.  |
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