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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 922345, member: 18157&quot;]I agree, I don&#039;t know who controls the stock of coins; the Mint or the Fulfillment Center. I would think it was the Mint; if there was a return, I would hope someone at the Mint is performing some sort of QA on the coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not only was the Anna Harrison coin I received as a replacement to my return the <b>EXACT SAME COIN,</b> the COA was jammed into the lid and the coin (outside of it&#039;s plastic capsule) and plastic capsule were put back into the display box <b>LOOSE</b>. I took that to mean that some arrognant SOB (at the Mint or the Fulfillment Center) was sending me a &quot;not so subtle&quot; message.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If only that were true. I personally know a number of First Spouse collectors that have received damaged coins only to return them and get damaged coins as replacements. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This seems to happen most often with the Unc coins; the proofs are still pretty good. About every ten (10) weeks or so, the Mint updates their First Spouse sales figures with (what I assume to be) the returns. You always see a large &quot;negative&quot; sales number with the Uncs...that&#039;s not just me returning the coins!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even the Mint folks on the phone say the best way is to order a new coin first, then (after you receive the replacement) return the one you don&#039;t want.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The &quot;dealer&quot; issue was just speculation on my part. I don&#039;t know of any dealers that actually do that...but I wouldn&#039;t put it past them. I&#039;m not sure how/if the Mint would deal with that. All I see posted is that there is &quot;no limit&quot; on First Spouse orders and there is a <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&amp;ID=991" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&amp;ID=991" rel="nofollow">seven (7) day return policy</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are no preorders for these coins; orders are taken on a &quot;First Come; First Serve&quot; basis beginning at 12 noon on the first day of sales. Without limits, I suppose a single buyer could come close to cornering the market on a particular issue...but I suspect folks with that kind of disposable cash have bigger fish to fry that cornering the market on a single issue of the First Spouse series.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Interesting question...the Tyler mintages (sales) figures didn&#039;t change over the last week they were on sale. It&#039;s been a couple more weeks and I still don&#039;t see an update. As I recall, there was a similar controversy over the final mintage figure for the 2008 fractional AGE coins; a year later some of the coins had their final mintages cut almost in half.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was reading a blog on the First Spouse series and there was one post where a person stated (and I don&#039;t know their credentials for making a statement like this), but they were convinced that many of the reported First Spouse sales figures will be adjusted downward in coming years.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Bottomline: US Mint mintage figures are a mystery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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