For This Week Lincoln Dollar, ASE Proof And Park Quarters

By telephone. 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468)

I delayed ordering a couple of other items until I could piggyback them
onto my Proof ASE order.

The mintage of proof SAEs has rarely, if ever, been set ahead of time. The last time a specific mintage was imposed by the mint was 2004 and it was 850,000 coins. Sales in 2005-2007 were between 800 and 850 thousand and in 2008, sales were stopped at a final mintage of 700,979. With what is expected to be greater than what was normal demand, one would expect the mint to go ahead and take orders for a while, but I would not be surprised to see mintage capped somewhere below 1 million. We won't know for sure until they stop sales and then tell us how many they shipped since it doesn't look like they are going to put an explicit cap on mintage this year.

The date listed on the website is set at a running 15 days from today. It will say the 8th tomorrow. A new order will do the same thing in the Track order page until it switches to "in stock and reserved", and it will ship anywhere from that same day to a week or more later depending on the Tarot reading, I think. All of the subscription orders should have been reentered and should be into fulfillment already. They used this 15 day running thing once before for me on my uncirculated Boy Scout dollar. The coin ultimately shipped on the original date given, which was two weeks before the last "expected ship" date provided. I think what they are really saying is that the coins are in stock but it might take two weeks to ship them because of the backlog of orders. This still fits into their published policy of lightning fast shipping of in stock items in one or two weeks. I don't think anyone who orders now will not get coins. If and when they establish a waiting list or simply stop taking orders then you may be too late, but not now. Coins are in stock. Whether they have more orders than coins in stock is not known. I do know that they can mint far more than the 200,000 a month that Moy told congress was possible. That number could be accomplished on one or two, 3 shift presses.

But let me borrow your Tarot Cards just in case.

In this case that's not it. In fact only 273,212 were sold through yesterday. Chances are the Pitney Bowes warehouse in Indiana didn't have enough on hand to fill those orders, thus a short back order to replenish the warehouse. But with the mint? Who knows!

http://news.coinupdate.com/us-mint-...uts-at-0545/

so it looks like I almost ordered double of these, good thing they were delayed. My subscription - which I thought didn't fill - got charged and shipped - after I had placed another order. The confusing part of their subscription page is that it doesn't update to tell you when it has been filled in the current year, etc. I'm going to go in an cancel other subscription things and just order them when they are released.

Got online to order at 12PM eastern. Took me about 45 minutes to finally get the order placed for the Silver Eagle. Site kept hanging up and timing out. Called them today and was told the order had been shipped. Kinda surprised as was expecting quite a long delay in shipping.

It is interesting to see that some members got their ASE's today.
Mine still shows "in stock and reserved". I guess those
members that have the yearly order in, really are the first to get them.

I did go back and order the Grand Canyon and Mt Hood roll sets.
They show in stock and reserved (on the mint web site).

Also last week I picked up four rolls of Lincoln dollars, two
for me two for a friend. I opened mine and was ...disappointed.
Out of the 50 coins it was hard to pick out 5 that I really wanted
to put in 2X2's and save. Lot's of bag marks and what looks like
planchet marks. I am glad I have the satin finish ones for my Dansco.