2021 Quarters What Is The Dull Color?

@sher, glad to have you here providing input although I disagree with your assessments of the coins' surfaces.




Sorry but that is not allowed.

When a new issue of quarters are issued - as per their release schedule, and I pick up a $500.00 box from my bank, and every unopened roll and every coin is of the identically newly released variety, then every one of those coins is uncirculated. Travelling between a few intermediate locations does not alter this fact.

Also, they don't actually travel through "Hands". You speak as if they are being actually held in peoples hands. I hope you really don't think so.

silviosi, you make a valid point. Some coins could well have dulled during transportation/storage and later been mixed with others from a less hostile environment.

agree with MERC. The Mint send to certified Banks and not sure probably to Loomis. Those certified Banks not more then two by State distribute also to theirs third party subcontractors for rolling and distribute in theirs State. So many hands on the coins before reach the customers.

PS. The coins are distributed by the Mint in bags, and the only way to have a new strike without interferences it is to buy a bag direct from the Mint if you has account with them.

@Sunny, Definitive answer it is an outside mint agent active the surface of the nickel. Experiment an new nickel coins put at -5 deg C from an environment of 20 deg C and then comes to tell me the result. Answer: will be dull. Another it is the composition of the S in the atmosphere of the coin. Co2 and Na give same results.

On Canadian coins and some from UK and Australia, due to the Cl concentration in the water use for wash, after 2 and more months the Ni become dull. Chemical reaction, and is natural.

I understand you want to be say that it is Mint default: but it is not.

@Make, you are 100% right, but understand all kind of fake YouTube from "super smart and extra experts", and etc. And also people want big money fast it is what we make face today.

When you look at PCGS on the certifed coins, they vary in color, eye appeal. They get get blanket grades by the coin grading. So they don't grade by mint condition of the metal. It is a grade issue for coin. Even Machine Doubling on a coin, doesn't ding the dollar amount. It is up to the buyer to determine what it is worth the them. See something you don't like, move on to a different coin. PGGS does consider die states either. They blanket price according to their grade they give the coin. So buying coins, it not buying a plastic issue. The eye appeal to the buyer is not considered. So if you get a VLDS coin or a EDS coin, they consider these the same price. As a buyer get the better grade example. The coin color/haze is also something that should affect the price of the coin, but lumped together by PCGS. So note only checking die state, but also color. That is the buyers job to make sure they are getting the coin they desire. If not there, pass! Better to have a coin your are proud to own, than to get a problem coin.