Yes Sir Kaiser, the new packaging stinks! The crappy new packaging format for both the ASEs and AGEs began with the issuing of the new reverse design Type-2 American Eagles. What a way to usher in “A New Era for American Eagle Coins” as the Mint puts it.

The Mint once gave me $4.95 free shipping (credit card) credit because I complained about something.

“I got a rock…” – Charlie Brown, from “A Charlie Brown Halloween”.
The U.S. Mint gave a free logo-branded tote bag made in Vietnam a few years ago to those who made certain purchases.
The U.S. Mint also gave away a 50-States quarter coin to each kid under age 18 who attended its launch ceremonies held around the country & Washington D.C. & the 5 USA territories and the same for each of the ATB quarters & were in a “Made in China” circular snap-shut soft plastic capsule. The U.S. Mint also gives a Lincoln cent to anyone who purchases the ANA’s Mint Passport cardboard folder at its two annual coin shows/conventions it usually holds (each official Mint from other countries with a table on the ANA bourse floor does the same with giving a small-denomination coin & stamping your ANA Mint Passport with a rubber stamp “Visa” on the page in the folder for that country). A neat item.
Such a deal!

NumisdudeTX

Yes, and in it’s infinite wisdom the Eurozone also finds it necessary to regulate the size and classification of peas.