What if the US Mint offered "Premium Quality" business strike coins
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Do you want MS 69 and MS70 modern business strike coins? Handled with cotton gloves as the finest proofs? How much is a PCGS mS70 coin worth?
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Do you want MS 69 and MS70 modern business strike coins? Handled with cotton gloves as the finest proofs? How much is a PCGS mS70 coin worth?
They already do but people just don't seem to care.
Even the best mint set coins are hardly perfect or MS-70 and many aren't available even in MS-68 or 69, but these coins are made under higher pressure by new well hubbed dies on vertical presses at lower speeds. Many of these coins survive the handling and made it sealed into sets as MS-65 and MS-66 and higher grades are hardly rare. In other words they make hundreds of millions of dogs that go into circulation and populate most of the mint sets but people don't care about Gems.
I seriously doubt that making MS-69 and MS-70 moderns to be common will change much of anything. There are already virtually perfect (nearly MS-70) coins available and people won't even lift the flap on the mint set to peek inside. They don't even care the coin might be available at less than face value.
Until more people start caring about moderns improving the quality and charging much higher prices would just be another gimmick. And gimmicks are more likely to harm the market than help it.
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