FDR Coin And Chronicles Set....a Bit Dissapointed

This set has nothing for me...
As someone who understands how much damage, yes damage, FDR did
to this nation, the set isn't for me.

As a coin collector, I may have been interested, but the clad coinage
& the medals (Seriously, medals making up the only precious metal in a
a COIN set?) in the set are useless IMO to a serious coin collector.

As a stamp collector, I know all to well how worthless those stamps are.
I use them as postage! They are hard to sell for more than face value
unless you find a sucker. In bulk, they sell for less than face because
the buyer is going to use them as postage, and the trouble of putting so
many on an envelope to make modern postage makes the buyer want them at
a discount, to pay for the trouble.

The mint is trying to hit home runs all over to make some revenue and
build excitement in it's customers, but they can't win them all...

Well, I ordered the set. I really love the Theodore Roosevelt set I bought last year and look forward to the Eisenhower and Kennedy sets next year.

I got mine yesterday as well.

Here is a more detailed review.

I mentioned it in the linked post, but I need to stress how happy I am that the capsules are more easily removed from the holders than they are in the Kennedy Silver set.

Excellent!

That is a good deal, especially considering that you can still get them from the mint.

I did see the mint still had them jbuck. So I'm wondering how the others will fair.

I think the success of each C&C set largely depends on the president being honored. I did not buy the FDR set because I do not care for the man. I'll gladly buy Truman's when it debuts and Ike's too.

I do not understand why so many people strongly dislike FDR. He led this nation through two terrible events: the great depression and the second world war. Was he perfect? No, but I doubt anyone reading my words would have done any better. I argue that most of you would have lead us to absolute failure.

It seems that being President of the United States is a thankless job. We tend to ignore the triumphs and choose to focus on things perceived (right or wrong) as failures. This is depressing, which is why I plan to get all of the C&C sets. I want to focus on the good these past presidents have done. I have to say that the booklets included with the two Roosevelt sets have enabled me to do this. I look forward to reading the remaining selections.