United States Mint Opens Sales For 2015 March Of Dimes Special Silver Set On May 4

@jack, the "project $xxxk" ones are also pretty big, as well as the "how far back can we go" and "Secret Santa" threads. The "What if they stop minting the 5-oz puck" thread has also evolved into a beast.

@Buckeye - you sly dog, you.

I got my sets yesterday, took a brief look and all except one W dime has a scratch. I am thinking of returning that one set.

@GR58

The mintage info is on the product's page on the Mint website, in small print to the top right (across from the product image). Product limit for the set is 75,000.

As for sales data, officially, that's released each Tuesday at 5 pm EST on the Numismatic Products data page (At the website, go to About -> Production & Sales Figures -> Numismatic Products). Those sales figures are total sales from release to the previous Sunday.

Unofficially, they tally sales everyday for the previous day.

Latest sales data from the U.S. Mint: 66,109 sets sold.

That's an increase of 2,227 sets from the previous, but half the sales volume compared to the past two days sales volume. Certainly a slowdown in sales.

I have called the mint and returned all 5 sets. They reassured me that by being a return for Replacement insured that I would receive replacements as soon as they are available.
They say the back order IS around Aug but replacements take priority over back orders so no need to worry about Not receiving them.

So I have some more thoughts:




The posts about people receiving so many defectice sets is discouraging. Sounds like a gamble to mail your sealed sets to a TPG to have some come back as defective.

Sounds like the best bet might be selling the box of 2 or 3 or all 5 sets sealed (to qualify for the first strike/early release designation) on ebay for someone else to either open or submit. I guess you risk a return, but couldnt you then turn around a return to the mint? I guess it beats opening the box and realizing you have some rejects to deal with if you just want a quick buck.

Sounds like the mint would save a lot of time just doing it right the first time and not having to deal with so many rejects/returns. Ive never returned anything to the mint but my uncirculated MOD dollar I got last month. had some black specks on and it I'm not very happy with it. I'm sure the mint site has this info, but what are the terms of their returns? How long do you have? Do you need anything more than the original packaging? Is there any chance of an exchange? if you only have two sets you like for instance and return three, are you disqualified from ordering more since you already bought five?

I received my five sets today. Three of the five MOD dollars have white hazing on the reverse. It's the exact same pattern, so it almost looks like the die was wiped or something. There is also some hazing on the reverse proof obverses going from Roosevelt's neck to his hear. Again, it's the exact same pattern, so it might be that this die was wiped too.

I already have my invoice for replacement and they sent me my label to mail them back. I talked to 2 people there for about 45 min's and they assured me that seeing it's a replacement there was no need to reorder. Still, my fingers are crossed.