World War I commemoratives

I jumped on the Mint site at the opening bell. No problem in buying a proof dollar standalone. Can't say about the coin-medal sets.

 

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Just looked. All of the coin-medal sets went to back order within minutes of the opening.

 

Ordered my proof and uncirculated coins in a matter of seconds just after noon ET. Not interested in the medals.

 

I wasn't interested in the medals, either.

 

Since I only buy the non-proof versions anymore, the medals are of no concern to me.

 

I’ll be buying the WW1 coins later today. I have a Mint certificate I can use but left it at home. Lol I’m boycotting the medals unless the Mint decides to sell them individually or in a medals only set!!

 

I can’t believe that people bought enough, of each set, to put all 5 into back order status. I wonder if a lot of people complained about wanting medals but not wanting 5 proof WW1 coins!!

 

Here's an odd one. I just received a Mint email reminder that the coins and medals are on sale -- 2 1/2 hours after the fact.

 

My "spidey sense" tells me there's going to be lots of proof WW1 dollars available on the secondary market, cheap!

 

With out question. The dollar itself is going to be a huge bust, the medals looked to be very attractive

 

I looked at eBay a while ago. I could find only one flipper trying to peddle the proof and uncirculated dollars. Nothing for the medal sets.

 

The medal sets are backordered because the medals aren’t shipping until May per the mint email. I wouldn’t read too much into it

 

“These sets, limited to 100,000 units across the five product options, can be ordered between noon on January 17, and 3 p.m. on February 20, 2018, unless the limit is reached prior to that date. Production will be based on the orders received within this window. Fulfillment of these sets will begin in late May 2018.”

 

Well, I see APMEX is set up to flip them. No price yet.

 

More like the medal sets are back ordered because they’re probably sold out already and they have to double check the orders now

 

I'm guessing whatever pre-ordering production they did came up woefully inaccurate, as usual. Just the Quickdraw McGraw's will get them, then a hiatus, then more will.

I'm predicting the uncirc will be the winner, aaaaagain.

Anybody notice those "sick low" final numbers on the Boys Town uncs?

 

I did. Picked up the dollar and half dollar.

 

Yep. Not interested in Franklin-mintesque medals, but I want one of the dollars. Will wait until all the medal set buyers dump theirs.

 

Only a total of 100,000 medals over the 5 branches. The Coast Guard Medal will probably be the key - no one collects Coast Guard stuff. Mintage will probably be under 5,000.

 

Classic U.S. Mint "thinking" (as if...). Take an idea with some demonstrated promise, in this case 1 ounce silver medals, and use it to kill something else through sheer marketing stupidity.