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<p>[QUOTE="ClairHardesty, post: 1301051, member: 34169"]If there actually any WP bullion coins in any of the sets it is a very small number. To me, it makes no logistical sense at all that the mint might have shipped WP coins to the SF mint, especially when you consider that when it temporarily halted bullion production prior to these sets being made, SF had nearly a million coins in inventory (in monster boxes). If they really did a one or two day production run to make 100,000+ coins to use in these sets (which I think they did) and it they ran out because of reject, they would have pulled from SF production inventory, not shipped coins in from WP. When PCGS contacted "a mint official" they got the canned answer "we can't guarantee where bullion coins come from". A mint official would be programmed to tell you this even if he was handing you a monster box with intact SF seals on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been one or two reports of sets with one type of coin missing and two of another type. That is understandable with 100,000 sets that were probably rushed through assembly.</p><p><br /></p><p>My last set shipped yesterday and is sitting at the UPS hub in Louisville. It will probably stay there until tomorrow night then fly to Austin for Monday morning delivery to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ClairHardesty, post: 1301051, member: 34169"]If there actually any WP bullion coins in any of the sets it is a very small number. To me, it makes no logistical sense at all that the mint might have shipped WP coins to the SF mint, especially when you consider that when it temporarily halted bullion production prior to these sets being made, SF had nearly a million coins in inventory (in monster boxes). If they really did a one or two day production run to make 100,000+ coins to use in these sets (which I think they did) and it they ran out because of reject, they would have pulled from SF production inventory, not shipped coins in from WP. When PCGS contacted "a mint official" they got the canned answer "we can't guarantee where bullion coins come from". A mint official would be programmed to tell you this even if he was handing you a monster box with intact SF seals on it. There have been one or two reports of sets with one type of coin missing and two of another type. That is understandable with 100,000 sets that were probably rushed through assembly. My last set shipped yesterday and is sitting at the UPS hub in Louisville. It will probably stay there until tomorrow night then fly to Austin for Monday morning delivery to me.[/QUOTE]
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