Beat me to it Top!... The janky-hanky-panky saga of the modern US mint continues. Glad I resisted http://catalog.usmint.gov/shawnee-national-forest-2016-uncirculated-five-ounce-silver-coin-16AJ.html
This auction ends @ 8:30 PM http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-P-5oz-...695213?hash=item1a0f96de2d:g:utgAAOSwAuNW3xh2
This is just a sale for a puck box. Can you believe the price? Never mind, peebay, quite the yard sale auction site. http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Mint-Box...207621?hash=item464a79cf45:g:VNwAAOxyRNJSd4jq
I don't know what's going on at the mint. Sales for Shawnee dropped almost a thousand from last week to 15,445 on today's sales report. So, maybe they had big cancellations/returns and did not make more of them - who knows with the mint, they keep us so informed.
According to coinupdate.com, the Kisatchie, Bombay Hook, and the Saratoga have officially sold out at the mint. As mentioned by the statequarterguy, the Shawnee dropped in sales by 957 units over the past week. Weird stuff.
Cumberland available 5/5/16 After the sales of Shawnee this past week of 188 and sales the week before of 295 that brings the total to 483 out of a possible 957, so that leaves 474 which could be gone in a couple of weeks, then we will know if they made more.
Shawnee P 15,928 http://www.coinnews.net/2016/04/14/us-mint-sales-2016-unc-gold-eagle/ Harper's Ferry #33
As I've just received my Cumberland Gap puck, I thought it was a good time to update the market value versus sales volume dataset. Despite the increase in silver value this year, the pucks seem to be moving lower in price over the recent weeks. Cumberland had a lower than expected first week in sales. It must be the may doldrums for pucks. Puck Name Year Code Mintage Current Original Hot Springs 2010 NP1 27,000 $211 $280 Yellowstone 2010 NP2 27,000 $196 $280 Yosemite 2010 NP3 27,000 $186 $280 Grand Canyon 2010 NP4 26,019 $206 $280 Mount Hood 2010 NP5 26,928 $191 $280 Gettysburg 2011 NP6 24,625 $211 $230 Glacier 2011 NP7 20,856 $211 $230 Olympic 2011 NP8 18,398 $226 $205 Vicksburg 2011 NP9 18,594 $236 $205 Chickasaw 2011 NP10 16,827 $276 $205 El Yunque 2012 NQ0 17,314 $296 $205 Chaco Culture 2012 NQ1 17,146 $216 $205 Acadia 2012 NQ2 14,978 $636 $205 Hawaii Volcanos 2012 NQ3 14,863 $666 $230 Denali 2012 NQ4 15,225 $326 $230 White Mountains 2013 NQ5 20,530 $196 $180 Perry's Victory 2013 NQ6 17,707 $176 $155 Great Basin 2013 NQ7 17,792 $181 $155 Fort McHenry 2013 NQ8 19,802 $181 $155 Mount Rushmore 2013 NQ9 23,547 $181 $155 Great Smokey Mountains 2014 NR1 24,710 $156 $139 Shenandoah National Park 2014 NR2 28,451 $151 $139 Arches 2014 NR3 28,434 $166 $139 Great Sand Dunes 2014 NR4 24,103 $151 $139 Everglades 2014 NR5 22,732 $156 $155 Homestead 2015 SN1 21,286 $156 $150 Kisatchie 2015 SN2 19,449 $166 $150 Blue Ridge Parkway 2015 SN3 17,461 $256 $150 Bombay Hook 2015 SN4 17,309 $156 $150 Saratoga 2015 SN5 17,563 $181 $150 Shawnee 2016 16AJ 16,675 $151 $150 Cumberland Gap 2016 16AK 14,854 $151 $150 Total 665,178 $7,188 $6,111
The Blue Ridge puck sold out un-expectantly quick. Although the mintage is a little more than the Bombay Hook, it seems to be holding value from that early sell out shortly after its release. It sort of reminds me of the still high value of the 2012 silver, clad, and mint sets. The US mint stopped selling them early in 2013, and it caught the collector's world off-guard.