2012 Birth Sets....silver Kennedy?

I ordered a couple of sets two days ago hoping to get lucky and maybe score one, but now that the mint knows, they have contacted the distribution center in Indiana and put a halt to sales. This is what I was afraid was going to happen if the mint found out. Now more than likely I don't have a chance at receiving one. It still says " In stock and reserved " on my account. I bet they would have shipped them already if there wasn't an issue. Looks like I am going to miss out. At least my niece is pregnant, so some lucky child will be receiving a birth set in November :)

Hey Timer.........can you post a picture of the silver half next to 2012 clad half so we can see the difference? BTW....great find, just wish the mint didn't find out until next week.

I guess going forward one should initially contemplate the feasibility of having a near 20,000 strong CCF membership evaluate an issue such as this.

If the primary goal was to accumulate as many of these silver error sets as possible for resale before the entire world found out, a respected local coin dealer may have been a more prudent choice to begin the process of authentication.

If the goal was to prevent the US Mint from loosing money as a result of poor their QC procedures, the buyer did the correct move.

Does one think that the US Mint could ever go bankrupt over something like this?

I am still up in the air insofar as to what I personally would have done.

I just know several charitable organizations that would love to have received one of these silver error sets as a donation.

This issue is really a tough call.

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It can't be that huge, plus they make a profit on many other things to cover their loses.

Just goes to show how poorly organized they are. Each year it is always some major issue. Their management and quality control is still very poor and has been that way for decades. They are a monopoly and are self funded, but if they ever came into a year of loses, I would think they can get money from the General Fund of the Treasury.

And look through the previous pages and you'll see photos of both coins.

at the price this set is selling at even if there is not supposed to be a silver half in there and every set did have one, they would still make money on the set, so this one coin in this set will definitely not "bankrupt" the mint. This type of mistake could cut into the profits from the set but the price of the set is enough to cover a silver half if every set that was ordered contained one

Curious to see where these silver sets go as far as value is concerned

My guess for the high cost is people WANT one for the fact that although not an error coin nevertheless a Mint error in the inclusion in a set they did not belong in

It has to do with the fact an error occurred not the silver value

People often want an error item that's all it is about