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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2356725, member: 15929&quot;]The best way to approach purchasing US Mint products is to first realize that 99.9% of them are losers! Straight up!</p><p><br /></p><p>You will rarely, if ever, recoup your original costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, every now and again, the US Mint either screws up or produces some type of rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s up to YOU to pay close attention to what is published and what you see on Coin Forums!</p><p><br /></p><p>Specifically, if a past product has been extremely popular, then it&#039;s easy-peasy to draw a correlation between what they had vs what they will have. For example, the 2006 20th Anniversary SAE Sets were a three coin set which included the 1st ever Reverse Proof coin from a US Mint. The set got poo-pooed once folks figured out the two of the three coins in the set were available as individual products AND the fact that a total mintage of 250,000 sets would be produced. (All of this came on the heels of the 10th Anniversary American Eagle Set which consisted of 4 Gold Eagles and and relatively Rare 1995-W Proof Silver Eagle.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Naturally, folks were &quot;expecting&quot; something unique with the 20th Anniversary Sets. The only unique thing was that Reverse Proof but there&#039;d be a quarter of a million of them!</p><p><br /></p><p>Surprisingly, the sets eventually sold out after months and months BUT they were hugely popular typically bring triple their oroginal value in the after market. (That might even be true today)</p><p><br /></p><p>Along comes the 25th Anniversary Set................but the figures were way low at only 100,000 sets being produced. This was announced a month in advance of the release date and given the popularity of the 2006 Sets, anybody and his brother could have figured out that with a household limit of only 5 sets, these would sell out in hours. (Which they did!)</p><p><br /></p><p>The trick was in being prepared by:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Having an US Mint Account</p><p>2. Being logged on before the release time of 12 noon ET on the release day</p><p>3. Refreshing and ordering immediately</p><p><br /></p><p>Not everybody got in and a lot walked away with blood oozing from their fingertips. The net result was a spectacular opportunity followed by the US Mint changing the household ordering limits on future products and increasing mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>That all worked well until the screwed up with the Truman Coin &amp; Chronicles Set where some fool decided that only 17,000 would be needed. They repeated that with the Eisenhower C&amp;C and finally killed the after market by bumping the Kennedy up to 50,000 sets and the Johnson up to 25,000 sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole point of the post is that I would have NEVER known about any of the above if I&#039;d just sat at home and waited for the US Mint mailers to arrive. A LOT of time was spent on Coin Forums and on perusing the US Mint product schedules.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from the 99.9% losers, there are some occasional winners.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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