Morgans sold out in 25 minutes...

Fiber to the curb at our house ~800mb - Their cart crashed 5x when submitting payment - I just gave up.

 

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I was able to get one CC. However, it wasn't easy. Same crap I ran into over the last few years.

When they first announced they were going to strike the Morgan dollar this year I got excited. I figured they would make a mint state and proof version. I was wrong they made 5 different mint state versions and no proof. I would have really like a proof Morgan dollar. The early Morgan proofs are expensive. Then they made the mintage at 175,000 per coin type. Five different types are unnecessary. They should have just struck one million Morgan dollars and then any collector that wanted one could get one. Or they could have produced them to demand. They do that with the bullion version of the silver eagles.

The down side of what they did is that no one as far as I know has even seen a picture of one that has actually been struck. They have pretty illustrations on the mint Webb site but, that doesn't mean the coin will actually look like that. If when the one I order comes in and it looks like a 1921 Morgan dollar I'll be really pissed off. The 1921 didn't give the design justice. It looked like crap.

Oh in case no one knows they are considering minting the Morgan and Peace dollars next year and possibly continuing for a number of years.

 

I was never really interested to be honest. If I were to buy one it would be one from P, S, or D Mints...preferably the S. A CC privy mark? Now if it was actually minted in CC then yeah, whole different ball game. I have my complete Morgan date/mint set (- 1893-S..for now) to tweek and upgrade. Now that's fun!!

 

I didn’t even try, due to lack of interest. I have fiber 940, and my laptop connected to Ethernet gets 1050 as an average. I have a feeling that the servers the mint uses do IP screening—they have catalogs of the IP addresses of big dealers, and volume buyers.

 

Not to my knowledge, I don't think so.

 

I haven't seen anything that makes me think they're competent enough to pull that off.

 

They would not do it. The company who manages the servers would do it for then. I know IT work; it is very easy to have an internal catalog of preferred IP addresses.

 

I am not a big Morgan fan. However, I cannot understand why as a public institution the Mint does not ensure that every member of the public can get these coins if they want one.

 

I got 2 Os. CCs sold out with them in my cart.
I swear I am done with the Mint every event and get sucked back in everytime

 

surprisingly i got the New Orleans one.i called 50 times without getting through,but was on the computer at the same time and finally nabbed one.

 

I do IT work.

It's not hard to manage traffic differently for different IP addresses. It's also not hard to design for scaling, to gracefully degrade under load, and to handle errors intelligently. That doesn't stop people from doing it wrong. Especially at the Mint, and apparently at the organizations to which they contract things out.

 

You do IT work? I write the code that you hate. We definitely have something in common, aside from coins.

 

Got a cc privy Morgan in my cart at 9:00 a.m. PT, and after numerous "bad gateway" messages I received a notice in my cart that the coin was no longer available. So much for having a coin in your cart! Normally if you leave a coin in your cart you're bombarded with e-mails that you "have a coin in your cart"! But in the next few days or weeks we will find out that numerous big dealers will have plenty of them for an outrageous premium. And the mint could care less because they've sold out, doesn't matter who gets them.

 

You've got a proof 1895? Wow, I'm impressed!

 

I wonder if calling/writing your congressman/senators would do any good?

 

Not sure how, but they'd probably make it worse.

 

They have a new program that allows 10% of the mintage to be sold to dealers at a premium before they go on sale. That was supposed to "reduce" congestion on opening day....

 

Obviously the powers that be in the mint couldn't care the less for all the people that wanted these and if they do continue to desire said coins will have to pay a significant premium over their actual value to acquire them.

There really shouldn't be ridiculous limits on mintage and an ordering process that is simply awful.

I ordered the uncirculated Christa McAuliffe coins back in January, and even though I got the coin in April I thought the wait was ridiculous. I cannot imagine ordering a coin in May and getting it in October at the earliest.

 

Which it has as you don't have a ton of people trying to get them to sell to those limited big dealers, but there still will be congestion with popular products. The simple fact is that its just not worth it for the mint to have a system that can handle the massive volume when 99% of the year their current system is more than fine

 

Guess I should have played the Lottery. I got 4 CC's and 2 O's on 2 separate orders. I originally ordered 2 of the CC's but apparently hit the order button twice and ended up with the 4. I was going to try to delete 2 when my wife said to just order them.....so I did.

BTW I do have a high end gaming computer but my internet connection sucks. I live in the country so my only options are satellite or direct wireless, with direct wireless being the better option.

Luck of the draw as some have said.