Mint Bag Collection

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My first one came with a $100 bag of 2014 P & D Kennedy Halfs

#2 with the HOF and #3 with 4 gold coins ?????

 

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The blumin' bag

 

OK, who's going to start the first Mint Bag Registry Set?

I guess it depends on when NGC and/or PCGS decide to start slabbing them...

 

I knew a thread like this would appear sooner or later. I called it on another thread

 

Nope. The another 'another' thread........

 

How much did the bag cost?

 

the bag costs... press link: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=austin powers 1 billion dollars&qs=n&form=VBREQY&pq=austin powers 1 billion dollars&sc=1-31&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=76FC892383DE50A6FA1376FC892383DE50A6FA13
lmao

 

Foist not thy unrequested advertisement strewn dreck upon thee.

Liberate yourselves from unnecessary baggage! Cancel while you can...!

 

You can keep them! I'd rather have the old canvas bags before "ballistics" came into vogue.

Chris

 

I don't know why the bag doesn't get any love. It's a perfectly good bag. Haters gonna hate I guess.

 

It has a lot to do with a) the Mint taking a cheap opportunity to use others to advertise itself rather than produce a handsome bag befitting it's usual mantra of quality that collectors may admire and enjoy using, and b) the absurd amount of waste they've shown by shipping a bag 2nd Day Air UPS Signature Required, which takes into account materials (boxes, invoices, labels, sealing boxes), human labor at PBGS preparing these parcels and the whole network of UPS or FedEx+USPS (fuel and labor costs) to deliver them, for what amounts to partial order fulfillment ahead of actual requested products being sent.

In a matter of weeks this whole shipping procedure will be repeated again to deliver coins. Not only will they deliver some orders bags first, then coins, but will also partially fulfill large orders shipping clad and silver and gold all separately over the next month or so.

It's waste multiplied, and all the fees are built into the costs of the products customers order from them. The bag may be reuseable, but many won't use it in the first place, and all the packing materials are bound for trash bins or immediate recycling. If everyone could learn to exercise some patience, let them mint and prepare and fulfill complete orders, rather than institute a policy of partial order fulfillment, there would be less resentment and overall waste. I've cut that waste by cancelling my bags across two separate orders.

 

I didn't say I hated them. I just don't want them.

Chris

 

It's your Federal Government hard at work.

 

Don't be left holding the bag.

 

In defense of the Mint, at least they are trying some new marketing.

Let's compare free shipping promotions to the free bag to see if the latter is really such a money loser for the Mint:

Free shipping: You spend $100 on products, the Mint pays $5 to ship, so they get $95.

Free bag: you spend $100 on products plus $5 shipping ($105 total). The mint pays $5 to ship the bag and $5 to ship the coin. The bag costs them 50c. So the Mint gets $94.50.

 

I thought it came with a black rubber band.

 

I forgot about that. Woe is me, I've misplaced the blasted thing........

 

If you're not using all of them, can you send me the spare black rubber bands?

 

So far, this is only mint bag that I own.

(Nerd Alert: I collect South Korea)

Had to jump on this when I saw it up for auction!

This is the ONLY 10 Won mint bag from the 1960s that I have EVER seen. A former G.I. sold to me it after holding onto it for 47 years. He found it in an empty closet on a US Army base in Korea in 1967.