Im looking for some mintage figures on the mint uncirculated sets sets about 1990 onward. Does anyone have a reliable source with these figures. I need to get a few of the sets to finish off my set up to this year and want to know how much I should be investing to get these certain sets.
Assuming the numbers published in my 2010 Red Book are accurate (sometimes they're not...not the current ones, anyway), I would say... 1990: 1,809,184 1991: 1,352,101 1992: 1,500,143 1993: 1,297,431 1994: 1,234,813 1995: 1,038,787 1996: 1,457,949 1997: 950,473 1998: 1,187,325 1999: 1,243,867 2000: 1,490,160 2001: 1,116,915 2002: 1,139,388 2003: 1,001,532 2004: 842,507 2005: 1,160,000 Now here's where it starts to get dicey... 2006: 847,361 2007: 649,076 2008: 663,136 I would be very skeptical of those last few numbers. You may find some more accurate numbers on elaine's post... http://www.cointalk.com/t24699-56/
Elaine always does a service on those posts' I just dont seem to recall seeing previous years' uncirculated sets listed but its all good. I seem to recall there being a big to do with one of the recent years uncirculated sets due to a short minted set, but I believe I have that one.
Does anyone have an update on these mintage figures... specifically for the dicey years of 2006, 2007, and 2008? I ask because the Mint is now stating they will stop selling 2009 Uncirculated Mint Sets on June 15th... and right now, Numismatic News has this at a little under 760,000. From what I though I had read elsewhere (a while ago)... those numbers look 'dicey' to me as well. I think... that the lowest as been a little above 800,000 or so.... If so, then 2009 might be the year that the Uncirculated Mint Set does really really well on the secondary market. Especially since many of them have been broken up to get to the copper pennies.
I started a thread about the Mint's recent Last Opportunity in the Coin Chat sub-forum highlighting that U09 set. I think it is a sleeper...only place to get the uncirculated copper cents. BTW: if you want updated mintage figures for these uncirculated sets, search Elaine1970's posts. TC
uncirculated mint set: 1990 - 1,809,184 1991 - 1,352,101 1992 - 1,500,143 1993 - 1,297,094 1994 - 1,234,813 1995 - 1,038,787 1996 - 1,457,949 1997 --- 950,473 1998 - 1,187,325 1999 - 1,421,625 2000 - 1,490,160 2001 - 1,066,900 2002 - 1,139,388 2003 - 1,002,555 2004 --- 844,484 2005 - 1,160,000 2006 --- 934,360 2007 --- 907,268 2008 --- 745,464 (lowest) 2009 --- 759,645 (not final)
