Pride of Two Nations limited set

They say they don't, but people have reported getting sets from the mint with notes in them from previous owners explaining what was wrong with the set. In one case a member of one of the forums I was on got a set with a note from another member of the forum.

 

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Did those reports show any photos of the coins or the notes?

I do remember hearing that also but don't remember any photos.

I do know that if I got a coin from the Mint and it had notes about the coins problems inside the box I would have taken photos and let the world know.
Big photos and lots of them.

 

are they sold out or not.....I am not sure

 

They are listed as backordered. Usually that means that they are sold out, but they are taking more orders so that any cancelled or duplicate orders won’t leave them with a couple of hundred sets left to sell.

Occasionally back order items will be filled weeks later, but not everyone agrees as to why.

 

I got my Baseball coins on the first round, and then they did indeed sell out. Fast forward a few months, and low and behold they're up for sale again on the mint web site. I scored a few more, but I knew they were someone else's bad dream. When they arrived that thought was confirmed. I kept the 'leavings' as a testimonial to never buy anything re-offered by the mint and one I broke out and turned into a pocket piece.

 

That’s confirms what I suspected. I usually purchase 2 of the one offs from the mint on the first day of issue since quality out of the gate has been subpar lately - I keep the “better” one and either return the other or sell it on the bay.

 

I looked at the photos on the US mints website, it seems the Canadians added stars to their maple leaf coin, presumably in a nod to us. Did the US mint make a similar nod to our neighbors to the north on our silver eagle?

 

$140.00 for 2 ounces of fancy silver? Yikes. The US Mint is starting to learn from their marketing-savvy neighbors up north.

 

It was quite some time back, but no I don't believe they showed pictures. I have to agree, if I had received something like that posting images would be imperative.

 

74,045 first day sales of US set - Canadian sets are sold out

 

Make that 74,054

 

Do you have a link to that number? MintNewsBlog says only 27,064 sold, which sounds low.
https://mintnewsblog.com/u-s-mint-sales-report-week-ending-june-30-2019/

 

http://www.coinnews.net/2019/07/05/pride-of-two-nations-coin-set-sales-reach-74054-in-first-day/

 

From the link above.....

"Those placing orders will notice an expected in-stock date of early August."

Sloppy seconds..........

 

Hopefully the 74k number is correct.
Leave it to the mint to screw up another offering, just like several other issues. They under produce a popular item that any fool could predict a 1st day sellout on, but kill sales when it goes into backorder status halfway through the first day. Under normal circumstances (fully produced item) and 74k 1st day sales, we'd see a sellout in another day or two - with the backorder fiasco, a sellout may not happen for another week or two, if that. This is what's known as getting screwed, coming & going - first the mint screws you on the cost, then it screws you on the flip.

 

If you ask me, flippers deserve to get screwed.

 

My experience has been that with 74k sold, 26k have not been sold and had a chance to be returned, so you have a good chance of getting good ones. The problem arises when they are sold out and then later, sales continue, they continue because some problem coins have been returned and the mint figures they can sell them.

 

We're all entitled to opinions. Of course you could say that about speculators in every area of investing. The worst of the bunch are those that speculate on commodities that are necessities. At least with coins, you're not forcing someone to pay more for items they need to survive.

 

You seem to have a problem with the mint screwing the average collector, but you don't seem to have a problem if you screw the average collector.

 

Completely different things. The mint is a monopoly that can and does charge exorbitant prices. I'm a capitalist who sells in the free market, with many competitors, were price is determined by demand, along with supply. I don't set the prices, the buyers do based on their demand.