Well! The satin finish coins from mint sets are yet another variety to add your collection.

Last year's Satin Finish coins generated a call from some mint state coin collectors to recognize their "business strikes" separately from the Satin Finish (or SMS) coins in registry sets. From all I have heard, both PCGS and NGC are considering weighting the business strikes of the same grade higher than the satin finish coins. It appears that there are a lot of satin finish coins from the mint sets of 2005 that graded a bit on the high side compared to business strikes. Personally, I dislike the idea of making such a distinction in the registry sets. What will come next? Will I need to collect clad and silver proofs, as well as business strike and satin finish mint state coins for my Statehood Quarters collection? That will be 30 quarters in a year. I have my hands full trying to keep up with the 20 per year right now.