On Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:36:04 AM UTC-4, Ken Barr wrote:
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rwalker wrote:



Well, it appears almost noone posts here anymore. I gave up reading

here regularly when it appears that the trolls had taken over.

Regardless. Does it bother anyone else that the date and mintmark

were moved to the rim on the Sacagawea dollars when they started going

to the changing reverse? I just recently brought my collection up to

date, and for me anyway, I think they fouled up a very nice looking

coin when they went to these annually changing reverses and moving the

date and mint mark from the obverse.



That's my rant for the evening.



I know of a few collectors still keeping up with the Sacagawea dollar

series, but most of them have given up on it. I used to be able to get

new issues from the bank and offer them at $1.50 each, but now they only

seem to be available from the Yew Ess Mint at some outrageous price, so

I don't bother getting them any more ...



Many of the collectors did complain about the edge dating / mintmarking

since the coins are fairly indistinguishable when placed in a folder or

album ...



I know I always have to pop key date coins out of Whitman "thumbbuster"

folders to verify proper mintmarks on the reverse ... I suppose I'd have

to do that for Sackies as well, if there is ever a "key date" in that

series ...



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Well, thanks to Jud, I'm able to continue my Sac collection. It's complete for the circ issues (2000-2014). Thank you, Jud.

Jerry