New Limited Eagle Sets To Come...

Maybe I missed something but how is Congress now involved and blamed for a collector issue RP ASE?

I think if they put out more of the "special" sets it will be way to much (especially 2 a year) and if they made 100,000 sets I am willing to bet after the first set they would have allot of them left at the end of the year, because no one would be buying them. People like to buy the 20th, 25th anniversary coin sets not only because of the special coins in the set its because we have to wait 5 years to see what they are doing. Adding different coins for 2 different sets every year will be a disaster for the series. I don't even think they should up the mintage's by allot on the once every 5 year series. If they make to many it will just be any other coin that the mint floods the market with and they would not be special either. If every collector can have one, they lose their ability to be collectible

It takes an act of congress to get a coin made. In the case of the silver eagle sets, they are a variation of coins that the mint is already authorized to produce.

I'm pretty sure that the mint and not congress has the say as to weather special sets made specifically for collectors are made or not.

I've been dreaming of a high relief ASE.......I hope they go through with it

Looks like a special set EVERY YEAR, with different types of ASEs, D-mint, UHR, etc. If there is gonna be a D-mint, they best get the quality control issue put to rest @ Denver Mint. The least attractive quality coins comes from there. See the US Army clad uncirculated half? Most of the ones I have seen have one problem or another. Can't imagine they would kid gloves 100,000 pieces of silver.

People aren't kevetching over these new special sets causing the A25s to drop in price. In fact, I think many would welcome that. It is precisely that the Mint could make ANY iteration of the Silver Eagle, say, mint it to 3 trillion pieces and charge $395.00 per coin, and still people would line up to buy it. Once it comes out, as many decry it now, it will become a need instead of a want. As it were, the Mint's got your number, and lest you forget, they are licensed to make money. The Mint finally realized the ASE is its Pavlovian dog.

Slightly OT, but very applicable. Having done a lot of retail comic business from the 60s to the 2000s, I can give you a trio of perfect examples what happens with this kind of market flooding.

First, the B&W (adjective, adjective, adjective, animal) and autographed copies boom and busts.

Second, we used to sell 10 copies of Punisher every month without fail. They made three Punisher titles and raised the price 50%, sales dropped to 4 copies per title, so total sales were up 80%. Then they went back to one title, and sales were down 60% from the old days.

Third, we had three customers who bought almost every comic, every month, one had been doing this since Amazing Fantasy 15 and Fantastic Four 1. As more clutter came out, they cut back, and back, and back. Before he gave up, that long-termer only got Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman and Batman, then just the two DC characters, then nothing. Another cut back to a handful of independent titles.

Finally, from a peak of several thousand dollars a month in new comic purchases, we had hit bottom. We couldn't cut orders as fast as people were cancelling or just quitting. One day, I got a call from a VP at Marvel (you'd recognize his name if I remembered it), asking why they hadn't received our monthly order. I told him that even with buying issues for back stock, we couldn't meet their $300 minimum.

"Just order whatever you need, and we'll fill it."

How bad is the market when the largest manufacturer puts their VPs on the phone to drum up sub-minimum late orders?