While the US Mint has made advances with the use of lasers it still remains in the 19th century when it comes to adding beauty to its coins. Selective gold plating goes a long way in beautifying a silver coin. The Breast Cancer Awareness silver could have looked a lot better with some selective gold plating – pink or yellow, especially on the butterfly on the obverse side – not gaudy, just a touch of color on an otherwise blah white coin.

Nice looking coin, but besides being way overpriced it comes from Royal Canadian Mint — among the very worst coin sellers out there.

With a Better Business Bureau rating of, “F”, they’re every bit exploitative as HSN and Mike Meczack, with extra surly phone reps thrown in for good measure.

Remember too that these are the folks that expect you to accept “some white spotting” on silver Maple Leaf coins as, “normal, and to be expected…” (read no returns, you’re stuck with them).

Moreover, earlier this month they weren’t at all concerned when some poor collector got stuck with a counterfeit gold Maple Leaf (complete with assay card encapsulation)…at least until the media showed up.

Her Majesty would not be pleased.