I'm trying to find how many US Mint Sets were sold over the last few years. The best I could find was until 1995 at coinfacts.com. http://www.coinfacts.com/mint_sets/uncirculated_coin_sets.htm I've been following the sellout of the 2004 sets. The US Mint will surely try to meet demand but, not knowing the particulars of when, how or in what volume mint sets are packaged, I am having a hard time gauging what will happen. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that the Mint will produce enough to meet demand but I'm still skeptical. Does anyone have any info on mint sets produced since 1995?
1996 S Clad: 1,695,244 1996 S Prestige Set with Olympic 50 cent: 55,000 1996 S Silver: 623,655 1996 S Silver Premier: 151,366 1997 S Clad: 1,975,000 1997 S Prestige Set with Botanic Coin: 80,000 1997 S Silver: 605,473 1997 S Premier Set: 136,205 1998 S Clad: 2,086,507 1998 S Silver: 638,134 1998 S Silver Premier: 240,658 1999 S 9-piece set: 2,543,401 1999 S 5-piece quarter set: 1,169,958 1999 S 9-piece silver: 804,565 2000 S 10-piece set: 3,082,483 2000 S 5-piece quarter set: 937,600 2000 S 10-piece silver set: 965,421 2001 S 10-piece set: 2,294,143 2001 S 5-piece quarter set: 799,231 2001 S 10-piece silver set: 889,697 2002 S 10-piece set: 2,277,720 2002 S 5-piece quarter set: 761,000 2002 S 10-piece silver set: 888,826 All from 2005 Red Book . Last date they had was 2002. Phew, that was a hard post! Now I don't collect sets (except for my kid's birth years), but there has been a run on these 2004 sets since the introduction of the two Jeff nickels. There is always that mind set that the first year is going be worth something...just like the first year of state quarters in 1999. Look what happen to those silver sets, they took off! So the mint in 2000 with the millenium and all, makes over 150,000 more and their values are no way near 1999 that produced roughly 800,000 silver proof sets. Go figure...so much for guessing!
Thanks Ed! Any thoughts on the 2004/2005 mint set situation? I want to exercize your mind as well as your fingers.
