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I just received my 2018 Uncirculated Coin Sets and the D version of the Thorpe buck looks almost proof like. The P version looks dull compared to the D version. There is a vast contrast. Did anybody else get the sets and experience the same? It is so brilliant you can hardly make out the images on the reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
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How about a picture for us? Sounds interesting!
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How about a picture for us? Sounds interesting!   |
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Teach, I got mine in the mail yesterday but haven't opened it yet. I'll do so before I go to bed tonight and let you know tomorrow. Also, I was 'told' today in another post that what we really got was a CIRCULATED set. Quote:
According to the US Mint, circulated coins is defined as:
"Circulating coins are the coins that the United States Mint produces for everyday transactions. Circulating coins are also included in the United States Mint's annual coin sets, which are the staple of coin collecting." According to the experts, we can only get 'uncirculated' coins from US Mint rolls or from pocket change we get from party stores or supermarkets; even if they've been in pockets, purses, junk coffee cans, or piggy banks for decades.  |
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I make no claim to being an expert. However, I do know how to read. <g>
We bought a bag of 100 of the "P" variety directly from the mint (selected "P" on the basis of its significantly lower mintage numbers posted on the mint's website).
In addition to having been able to read the mintage numbers, <g> I was also able to read that these are NIFC coins which will NOT be released into circulation.
So, while they ARE legal tender, and CAN be used as "spending money" one would need to be brain-dead, dishonest (i.e., a coin thief), or in the utter depths of economic desperation to spend them, since the only way to acquire them is to pay above face value from the mint.
So while it is theoretically possible to find these in circulation (I daresay inevitable), it is too much of a stretch to believe that the mint is "coin roll hunting" in order to locate the ones they sell in mint bags and rolls. (And even if in some alternate Mad Magazine universe, they DID do so, then where would THOSE coins have originated? :)
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So, while they ARE legal tender, and CAN be used as "spending money" one would need to be brain-dead, dishonest (i.e., a coin thief), or in the utter depths of economic desperation to spend them, since the only way to acquire them is to pay above face value from the mint. Ask any half dollar roll searcher how many NIFC coins they've found. I personally have a couple of hundred (including 4 silver proofs). All are lower mintage coins only available for a premium from the mint. There are people out there cherry picking the bags & rolls & submitting to TPG's. A very high grade coin or two will turn a nice profit even after cashing in the rest at FV. |
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@ Howard Black  To the Forum. |
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 This was the best I could do, the picture does not do the coin justice, can't figure out how to get a picture that actually shows the mirror like image it actually is.....I'm not a great coin photographer. |
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For some reason each picture the camera would remove the shine and make it dull?
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This isn't a great picture either, took it from my phone, but it gives you a better idea on how this coin really looks with the mirror like finish.  |
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Interesting coin - I am unable to judge based on the photos provided.
Extending my best of wishes to you for a perhaps cool find - which I honestly doubt.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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I'm just wanting to know if anyone else received this set and what their Thorpe D buck looks like. The last picture looked better and then when I posted it, it enlarged and got all blurry. Who knows I might try again. It is no big deal, probably isn't anything special, it just doesn't look like a typical uncirculated coin. It looks like those reverse proof Presidential coins. The Thorpe figures on the reverse look very similar to those reverse proof obverse of the Presidential bucks.
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 One last attempt to try and show what this coin looks like. Any picture I take doesn't do justice to the proof like look. |
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I just received a P & D "cut" 2018 Jefferson nickel from the mint set and I am almost amazed at how much better they look than in previous years. Yet they still have some minor contact marks.  |
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Posted 05/19/2018 9:10 pm
