A New Coin Set From The Mint On 8-1-17, Eu 225th Anniversary Set

My bet is these will still be available at the mint weeks from now. Mintage is at least 100k too high. Like most mint products, it will be wise to just wait and buy them on the secondary market for cheaper than the mint's price.

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I think this sets will be the ones that sellers dont think will grade ms70 or even ms69. This sellers will buy a bunch of sets to send for grading and the ones that look ugly, with spots etc will try to unload on ebay even for a little loss cause they will make hundreds on the so call perfect 70 slab ones they sell to fools.
You will say, why wont they returned the ugly sets back to the usmint. I think you have to send back your entire order for a refund not just the ones you pick because they have defects. They lose some on those sets but gain a lot on the graded sets. Thats the game. They cant return a few problematic set back for a partial refund, it has to be all or nothing.

This hits on pretty much every major modern collection - cents, quarters, kennedys, etc. Even at sellout with each collector getting one a piece, there's still going to be roughly 2/3 of the folks that buy proof sets left in the dark on this one. Think about it before you call this one a dud.

This is not correct. You can send back whichever ones you want for whatever reason you want. I've done it many times due to the mint's poor QC.

Good point.

I still say dud. What was the mintage on the March of Dimes set with the special proof dimes? Or the 2014 Kennedy half proof set? And the last Native American EU dollar? Those all languished for quite a while and had lower mintages. Even looking at regular proof sets sold, I am not convinced that the majority arent being bought by wholesalers instead of individual collectors. Mintage should have been 75k max. The individual collectors will buy the first day, plus some orders by dealers, but the number of sets sold after the few days should be a strong indicator of the real demand.

I don't know how to do a poll, but will predict that 75k sets sell in the first week. $30 seems like an attractive price point, but I think about the time I was naive and paid $25 for a bunch of 2005 clad proof sets from the mint that are worth $6 now. I want a set for my collection...just saying in a few years I can most likely pick one up for half the price.

Those are sets that appeal to only one collector. The dime collector, the half dollar collector, or the dollar collector.

This set appeals to many different collectors. This is not to say the mintage is not too high (it is), but that it will beat our expectations (which are, you have to admit, rather low).

with bobby.