With an approximate 25% survival it seams quite dismal for the 1969 coins, are they commanding large premiums?
Is two million a particularly high mintage or low?
What was the reason this year was made so poorly?
If collectors noticed back then that the 1969 mint set were so poorly struck why wasn'tthe best searched for then and saved? Surely there were modern collectors back in 69
Hey SamHow are you?I think the future collectors will be more taken aback by the horrible quality and craftsmanship shown by the mint itself during this time period. While the Lincoln for example was reworked drastically in 69, instead of a new beginning the quality of the coins in the 70's continued on the downhill spiral. The zincoln disaster followed by plating issues, striking issues due to horrible production expectations from the dies themselves having a poor design only to increase the production numbers higher led to the situation in that time frame where the coinage was not being looked at as it had in the past. The modern collectors at the time, speaking in the first person here, were put off by the quality of the coinage. Add to this the problems you are describing here further illustrates the disaster coming out of the mint.That will be what future collectors will be saying in my opinion.I have hundreds and hundreds of rolls of coins from that 70's and 80's that I have a hard time looking at.Things began to improve in the 90's. but the 70's and 80's are a dark spot in US coinage.
Now if I could only get him to like bust coinage......