Posted 07/19/2020 7:46 pm
The Mint started the Coin and Chronicles sets with the silver presidential medals in late 2013 with the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential $1. "Teddy" was a popular president and was deeply involved in getting US coinage to be redesigned - his popularity made him a good choice to launch the new sets.
You'll notice, however, that the Mint did not issue a C&C Set for every Presidential $1 release after Roosevelt. For example, there isn't a set for William Howard Taft (Roosevelt's immediate successor) or Warren Harding or Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover. The Mint could have made the sets with these coins as they came up on the production schedule, but chose not to because of the relative unpopularity of these presidents. It was not believed that the sets of these presidents would be good sellers.
The Mint couldn't create C&C Sets of earlier, popular presidents such as Washington, Adams or Jefferson, for example, because it did not have a stockpile of these earlier Presidential $1 coins and did not have the authority to restrike the coins of previous years. The Mint is now releasing its series of Presidential medals in silver, so you can assemble a set if that is your interest.
One other thing that might be of interest to you, the Mint produced three Coin & Chronicles sets prior to the 2013 Theodore Roosevelt set. In 2005, it produced one for the Chief Justice John Marshall program - the set included an uncirculated version of the Marshall silver dollar; in 2006, it included a C&C Set in the Benjamin Franklin commemorative program of two silver dollars - Scientist and Founding Father - the set featured an uncirculated Scientist dollar; and in 2009, the Mint produced the Abraham Lincoln C&C Set which included a proof version of the Lincoln silver dollar along with four 2009 proof Lincoln cents (one of each bicentennial design).
You'll notice, however, that the Mint did not issue a C&C Set for every Presidential $1 release after Roosevelt. For example, there isn't a set for William Howard Taft (Roosevelt's immediate successor) or Warren Harding or Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover. The Mint could have made the sets with these coins as they came up on the production schedule, but chose not to because of the relative unpopularity of these presidents. It was not believed that the sets of these presidents would be good sellers.
The Mint couldn't create C&C Sets of earlier, popular presidents such as Washington, Adams or Jefferson, for example, because it did not have a stockpile of these earlier Presidential $1 coins and did not have the authority to restrike the coins of previous years. The Mint is now releasing its series of Presidential medals in silver, so you can assemble a set if that is your interest.
One other thing that might be of interest to you, the Mint produced three Coin & Chronicles sets prior to the 2013 Theodore Roosevelt set. In 2005, it produced one for the Chief Justice John Marshall program - the set included an uncirculated version of the Marshall silver dollar; in 2006, it included a C&C Set in the Benjamin Franklin commemorative program of two silver dollars - Scientist and Founding Father - the set featured an uncirculated Scientist dollar; and in 2009, the Mint produced the Abraham Lincoln C&C Set which included a proof version of the Lincoln silver dollar along with four 2009 proof Lincoln cents (one of each bicentennial design).
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