As i'm working on picking up the modern silver proof sets I've been surprised to find that the Susan B. Anthony Dollar was never included in the 1999 set (please correct me if I'm wrong). Was there a specific reason for this? I just find it a little odd since the Sacagawea Dollar has been included in the sets since it's introduction. The SBA was included in the 79 proof set i believe.
The SBA is in the 79, 80, and 81 proof sets. The 1999 proofs were sold individually to collectors, and there were 750,000 proof SBAs that year struck at the Philadelphia Mint with the P mint mark.
The Suzy B (proof) was offered separately back in in '99. Why they didn't include them in the silver sets I couldn't tell ya.....
Citation? Where did you get that number? The 2012 Red Book doesn't list the numbers of proofs struck that year and you'd think by this late date they'd have them.
The US Mint also struck the 1999 Proof Susan B. Anthony Dollar. The collector coin had a final mintage of 750,000 pieces, which were sold individually. http://susanbanthonydollar.org/1999-susan-b-anthony-dollar/
Thanks for all the info. Since there was never a S-mint SBA for that year I guess it won't really be missing from my collection. For right now my focus has shifted to my Uncirculated Ike set. Giving the Uncirculated Kennedy Set a break. I may just have to do an Uncirculated SBA set now as well. I already have completed from circulation set of Ikes and SBAs. I gave up on the circulated Kennedy set when I started my Uncirculated set. Wow, the joys of the never ending, always shifting, coin collection!
The reason the 1999-P was not included in the proof set was because they hadn't struck any SBA's since 1981. The Sac dollar was coming out in 2000 and the government was hoping that the supply of SBA's on hand would last until the new coin came out.Around October it became clear that the supply would not last and they would have to coin more SBA's. (They couldn't start the Sac's early because the law specified them starting in 2000.) But by this time the proof sets had already been on sale for months. So they decided to strike 750,000 1999-P proof SBA's and sell them as a separate item. They sold them for four years before they finally sold out.
However, you could look at this way. It's the first proof struck in Philadelphia since San Fran was devoted entirely to proof production in 1968. The last time Philly struck proofs was 1964, since 65-67 there were no proofs struck.
