Comments on: Gold, Silver End April at 15-Month Highs; US Coin Sales Strengthen https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 03 May 2016 20:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162311 Tue, 03 May 2016 20:26:05 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162311 Mike Unser-

Sorry to hear of your loss. My Android smartphone crashed when I dropped it on cement hard! I got a new one & am still getting used to it. Look forward to your gold dime photos when you have the time. Take care.

-NumisDudeTx

]]> By: Joe C. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162206 Mon, 02 May 2016 15:45:29 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162206 I hoping also that the quarter will have a full head. I also hope the mint employees read these posts as maybe they will learn something about coins.

]]> By: Joe#2 https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162194 Mon, 02 May 2016 12:52:59 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162194 I received my 1 gold Merc dime, Mine as well does not have the split bands ,But, I’ll tell you what, I love my piece that i received from the mint. I still believe they did a great job on this coin. I saw some that folks have received that have issues
that they are sending back. I guess it’s an “individual” problem. I will be keeping the piece in OGP as well. Looking forward to the quarter. Seen pics of it, Looks awesome…IMO, Kudos to the U.S. Mint on this one….

]]> By: kahoola https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162168 Mon, 02 May 2016 05:55:33 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162168 It seems that the Mint didn’t understand the importance of full split bands on the winged liberty gold dime. Hope that the Mint will put the full head on the standing liberty gold quarter. Maybe somebody should be suggesting this to them…

]]> By: Mike Unser https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162133 Sun, 01 May 2016 20:30:34 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162133 Seth, we were able to order a couple of the new gold dimes, although we did have one miss. That said, we didn’t get them until Wednesday, which was later than I had hoped. A death in the family coupled with pre-planned events will significantly delay us in publishing photos.

]]> By: Joe C. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162130 Sun, 01 May 2016 19:23:11 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162130 In reply to Seth Riesling.

Seth,
How unfortunate. Where the heck is quality control at the mint? For a 100 year commemorative this coin should have been a gem, fully struck coin with full split bands. As I stated earlier, I won’t be sending my coin back because it probably wouldn’t be replaced with a better coin. I suggest other collectors of this coin do the same.

]]> By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162055 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:47:58 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162055 Joe C. –

From the few coins graded so far from PCGS & NGC & ANACS that I have seen photos of the coin & slab label, it looks like the design itself (the dies) didn’t have Full Split Bands for some reason. Therefore the coins will not have them either unfortunately. That is what the Mint missed out on & I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t use the original design from 1916 that had full bands, after all this is a centennial tribute coin.

-NumisDudeTX

]]> By: Joe C. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162052 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:32:23 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162052 In reply to Seth Riesling.

Seth,
Thanks for your reply. It will be interesting to hear from other collectors on the condition of the split bands. I do think the obverse looks good. Nice case, but it is too big for the size of the coin.

]]> By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162049 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:06:59 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162049 Joe C. –

Same here Joe! Thanks for sharing your comments. All photos I have seen from the Mint, dealers & collectors & my 3 coins are the same as you described. The top 2 bands are totally flat & the bottom one has a little bit of separation in the bands. You would think that this being a special centennial coin, & in pure gold that the Mint could have paid special attention to this important detail in the engraving of the dies. Otherwise, I do like the coins I got a lot.

Happy collecting Joe!

-NumisDudeTX

]]> By: Joe C. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/30/gold-silver-end-april-at-15-month-highs-us-coin-sales-strengthen/#comment-162044 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:15:43 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=57914#comment-162044 Rec’d the winged liberty head gold dime on 4/28 by UPS. The reverse looks just like the original photo that was shown. The horizontal bands on the lower part of the fasces are split. The center bands are weak and the top bands do not show any splitting at all. Very disappointing as the coin being gold you think it would be fully struck. One of the TV shows already showed one graded MS70 with the same condition as the coin I received. Don’t know if it was photoshopped or not but it looked like the original photo shown also. I will not be returning it as I believe the majority of the coins will be in this condition. If someone receives one with full split bands, please let us know.

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