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Message:: [QUOTE="LJRambo111, post: 2712795, member: 21706"]Ok I admit it I have collected many of the silver Eagles both in proof and Mint State. I had placed my order in 45 seconds for the Congratulations silver eagle set. There was no lag and everything went quickly. My order was immediatly placed to in process. This is the normal cycle for orders that are going to ship. Then after 5 days I woke up and checked my order status on the next Monday and to my surprise my order was no longer in process, it was now on backorder.  After calling the mint to see what was going on they told me that the subscriptions took a lot of the inventory. I checked the web site and couldn't find these issues in the subscription area. So as far as I can figure the big coin companys flooded the US Mint with big order numbers. It looks like Modern Coin Mart, must have ordered thousands (Gov mint and Modern Coin Mart are the same company.) and got a lot of the inventory. According to ebay listings. Can you believe they want up to 349.00 for a proof 70. Thats 6 times the value. They had over 423  coins listed just under the PF70 labels.  Thats 86,552 plus 45,325. For a total of $131,877.00 Just for the PF 70's???. Not to mention the PF69's.  This is how the coin company's whore out their customer base. PinehurstCoinExchange had over 500 of these coins for sale. A real case for American Greed[/QUOTE]