Any News On 25th Anniversary ASE Set?

Still waiting for my set from PCGS that I sent through my local dealer. My question, since I have never sent a set in the box out, what set of numbers on the slab should run concurrent? Or should any? Just starting to get a little antsy since they were sent out before christmas. I want to make sure I get my set. Is this a normal wait time or are they backed up?

Well it appears now that OGP and PR/MS69 sets are now selling at parity. Never would have thought I would see that, but here we are! The last ten sets that I viewed of each sold within the exact same price ranges ( excluding a ridiculous OGP set in sealed box that sold for over $1600! ).

I was in the same mindset as you and it didn't make sense how a raw opened set with only two 25th Annie eligible coins could sell for the same as a graded set 5 coin 25th Annie labeled set....until....I looked at those two coins. They could be taken from the set and submitted and might grade RP70 and MS70. Those two alone are going for near $900.

So the main value in the raw opened sets (other than the great looking set) is the RP and S. The other three are just along for the ride.

I CAN see why the unopened boxes should sell more than an opened box but it would be really dumb to pay more than what a 70 graded set is going for.

There are still some "three-coin" (minus the "P" and S" coins) A25 Sets on ebay.
Since the 2011-W Proof is sold out, the 2011-W Unc. is sales-suspended pending a price increase, and the bullion 2011(S) can be attributed by its tail dimple, these "three-coin" Sets are looking better and better.

Numismaniac, you are a better person than I am. I only ordered 1 set and I looked at the unopened box for, oh about 10 seconds before I cut it open. If I had an unopened box, I would think about every day until I could not stand it any more. Let us know in 20 years how it went. And I love my OGP set. I open it up every couple of days and drool over it. I guess I should keep a rag nearby ...

Paying top price for a raw set that "might" have the two keys come back as 70's, once you pay to send them off, still seems precarious though, to me.
I guess if one is "lucky" enough.......

They're mostly ALL likely 69's, with a growing handful lucky enough to get the 70 status.
Sadly I wasn't "lucky".
When my two sets came back, I had two 70's, but they weren't the two keys.....

Has anybody heard of ANY A.S.E.'s in this Set, coming back from a TPG that graded "below" 69 ? ...... I haven't, but maybe I'm not informed enough.

So the way I view these.....the lucky few will have their two Keys in 70 grade (if not a whole Set of 70's)
And then ALL THE REST OF THEM MINTED WILL BE 69'S !........
Which "should" create a large difference in price values.....

And this is all status-quo for the whole run of the ASE program for all of these years anyway right ?
Everybodys Eagle (Proof or Burnished Uncirculated) will either be a 69 or a 70, and that's it......most being 69's of course.

My "all-69" Set might be the "bottom of the barrel" and the "least coveted" or "valued" of this special anniversary set...... BUT ...... at least I have THAT !
And I'm thankful...........mostly.....

Nothing wrong with a good 69 set, which I think are just as good as the expensive 70 grade, bottom of the barrel is an open, possibly cherry picked set.

I'm still sitting on my unopened box of five, the most recent one sold seems to have gone for $4300 plus shipping