US Mint 2016 24k Gold Coins To Celebrate 1916 Designs

Wow, thanks to all! I am going to look at my silver eagles right now.

I thought of using a few minutes of my lunch break to make the US Mint aware of their pricing error - this is the transcript of the chat I had with one of their representatives:

Chat Transcript
11:31:40 [Kimberly D.] Hello, my name is Kimberly D., thank you for contacting the United States Mint. May I ask with whom I am chatting?
11:31:46 [Visitor] Hi, It's Frank
11:31:55 [Kimberly D.] Hi, Frank! How may I help you today?
11:32:07 [Visitor] I just wanted to make you aware that you are overpricing both liberty gold coins.
11:32:26 [Visitor] They are currently priced as if gold was in the $1250-1299.99 bracket
11:33:59 [Visitor] Please check your pricing grid and you'll see what I mean
11:34:04 [Kimberly D.] I will be happy to help you with our gold pricing! Pricing for precious metal numismatic products (e.g., platinum, 24-k gold, 22-k gold) varies by the average cost of the underlying metal. We use our pricing range table the week prior to sale in order to determine the product's price. If the average weekly price of the precious metal moves up or down into another cost range, the price of the product will also go up or down, respectively, by a fixed amount. Click here for detailed pricing instructions.
11:34:25 [Visitor] Yes, I know, but you are in the wrong bracket for both.
11:34:53 [Kimberly D.] I'm sorry, but this is what we follow for gold pricing.
11:35:32 [Visitor] OK, let me explain the hard way...
11:35:40 [Visitor] https://catalog.usmint.gov/american...oins#start=1
11:36:09 [Visitor] $1510 because the price of gold was in the 1150-1199.99 bracket
11:36:14 [Visitor] That's all correct
11:36:34 [Visitor] Now check this:
11:36:37 [Visitor] https://catalog.usmint.gov/walking-...oins#start=1
11:36:41 [Visitor] and this one:
11:36:47 [Visitor] https://catalog.usmint.gov/standing...d=gold-coins
11:37:02 [Visitor] Both are priced as if gold was in the 1250-1299.99 bracket
11:37:37 [Visitor] currently $890 & $472.50, but they should cost $840 & $447.50
11:37:46 [Kimberly D.] I understand, but theses are our prices.
11:38:15 [Visitor] YOU ARE USING THE WRONG BRACKET TO PRICE THESE TWO COINS
11:38:58 [Kimberly D.] We follow the pricing range table. Would you like to place an order for our gold coins?
11:39:27 [Visitor] No, you do not follow your own table. Please go to the file and compare the prices in the table and on your website.
11:40:25 [Kimberly D.] Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

And this is when I gave up...

You see, this is what happens when you try to be a good citizen.

It's not just you: http://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/04/...-gold-coins/

You explained it clearly; Kimberly just didn't follow up properly. Hope they fix it -- they should also give refunds to anyone who paid the wrong price (but I doubt they will).

That is was what I was thinking.

Hypothetically speaking, the Mint is an institution that should probably be carpet bombed and the survivors taken out and shot for the good of the nation. I say this hypothetically so no one gets the wrong idea that I actually mean our government is corrupt and should be destroyed. Hypothetically, that would be bad I think. While we are at hypotheticals, lets bomb the Fed as well.

Gee, terry8835, talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

So I agree the government is corrupt and all, but maybe we don't do that. I think you should just tell your experience with that coin shop on every review site, and maybe file a complaint or two.

Ok, that's a creeper way to check for a robot and I advise against it.

Edit: Unless the other party initiates the contact unsolicited. In my opinion, etiquette doesn't apply in that case.