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CelticKnot Bedrock of the Community United States 12815 Posts	Posted 06/07/2012 02:53 am So I've been tracking the product codes of all the US Mint products I've purchased over the past 10 years or so. Generally they are consistent among sets that span a few years but they seem to change some things at random. For instance, the ASE 5-oz UNC pucks went NP1-NP10 for the 2010-2011 releases. El Yunque is NQ0. Why not NP11? And the Ag proof sets over the past 10 years have been: 2003: V03 2004: V40 2005: V50 2006: V60 2007: V70 2008: V80 2009: SV0 2010: SV3 2011: SV4 2012: SV6 What the Sam Hill? This is just a small example of the inconsistency of the Mint product codes. Many series seem to follow an order, but does anyone have an explanation of why the product codes vary so much? And does anyone have a complete list of product codes from start to finish? I have tracked many of them since about 1999. Report this Post to the Staff

basebal21 Bedrock of the Community 13014 Posts	Posted 06/07/2012 03:16 am Considering how badly they have handled the 5oz puck series it only makes sense they do something completely unnecessary with the code Report this Post to the Staff
Bizybackson Pillar of the Community United States 1817 Posts	Posted 06/07/2012 03:53 am Someone stated that Mint uses a 3 character code, so NP10 obviously violated that scheme. Perhaps the first uncirculated coin should have been NP0 through 9 additional coins to NP9 with the 11th coin being the next letter in sequence, NQ0, the 21st coin in 2014 (assuming this series gets that far) as NR0. I don't suppose the product codes matter much to the average collector of US Mint products, as products seldom are available for more than 24 months, usually just 12, unless sold out, so some codes might come up for reuse on other unrelated products. You missed on SV1, SV2, SV5 and SV7, which are silver quarters only for 2009, 10, 11, & 12. Edited by Bizybackson 06/07/2012 03:57 am Report this Post to the Staff
CelticKnot Bedrock of the Community United States 12815 Posts	Posted 06/08/2012 02:36 am 3-character codes, huh? I have to agree that's all I've ever seen in the 13 or so years I've been buying from the mint's web site. It makes sense but it's still silly and short-sighted. Obviously they didn't have a DBA determining product codes. :) Let's see...if we follow the [Letter]\|[Letter/Number]\|[Number] convention, we have 26 x 36 x 10 = 9,360 possible permutations* for product codes. I grant you that it would take many, many years to exhaust all possible combinations, but still. It's not a huge deal at the end of the day and they probably (I hope) have a unique code in their DB for each product, which could allow for repetition of Product Codes. But then why have a product code at all? *I was always bad at statistics; please correct me if my calculations are pedestrian. Report this Post to the Staff
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