I'll do a update to my collection. Again the articles I wrote were for a Facebook group I'm in and thought it would be fine to just share it here, for those that wouldn't have seen it on facebook. I am about as far as I went on Facebook, so I could consider marching on on the facebook group and continue to share here. I'll give that some though. Maybe I could concentrate on getting better pictures as I go along. Well here's the article and I have the pics ready to add:
Well it won't be all that long and I'll be done and up to date on my weekly history pictorials. Here we go with 2017, it's kind of short and sweet compared to a few of these past weeks
2017.
One big change coming, but we can start with the usual basics.
The Proof and Uncirculated, showing what we, I guess at that point would consider the "usual", the West Point mint releases.
Sales codes again were like we are used to today, Proof 17EA, Uncirculated 17EG.
I don't get into the third party graders much, as you all know. But 2017 was very pivotal for the graders. NGC had noticed differences in the quality and appearance of the green monster boxes as well as the serial numbers and decided to ask for information through the Freedom of Information Act and found that the mint had been producing bullion at the San Francisco as well as the West Point mint for several years. So that's when they started having the implied mint marks on labels.
So then the rest of the coins pictured.
It was announced that the Congratulations Set in 2017 was going to have the
ASE minted at the San Francisco mint. This was the first
ASE Proof produced at San Francisco in 5 years, the 2012 San Francisco Set, and the first one available individually since 1992. Although we still call the Congratulations Set a "set", it is of course just a single coin, I guess the OGP makes it a "set". It sounds very much like the experience we all had last year, the mint sold out of them in 2 minutes. So it was pretty hyped up. Sales code 17RF.
The San Francisco proof was also in the Limited Edition Silver Proof Set and also was bought up rapidly. Sales code 17RC.
So that's about it. The extra pictures I posted of the 2014 and 2017 was an OGP oddity I discovered when doing the pictures this evening. Note on the 2014, the last year of the old style OGP, where the coins were all sealed in one plastic slab. The bottom box has the fabric strap to make it easier to pull the slab out of the box. So this was the same after the mint changed the OGP so the coins were all individually encapsulated. So what, right? If you use the strap to flip the slab over on a 2016 or newer, there is nothing back there, just a plain black panel. So I just thought it was odd they left that strap there. You can just pull the coins out individually to look at the reverse if you want to.
Posted 05/27/2023 9:18 pm
you should see mine before I hit submit - after many corrections and re-wording, it finally makes some sense
