2015 Coin & Chronicles Set - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The medal is not proof, so how can it be reverse proof?


Well, the set will go from Memphis to Atlanta. From Atlanta it will pass me and go to Charlotte. Finally from Charlotte westward to me.

I guess it is better than being a block head.

(That is not directed at anyone, it was something we all used to say thanks to Charlie Brown.)

Someone posted this on Mint News Blog...

(Its only a theory I believe)


The Mint's catalog website runs in the cloud using a system called Demandware. You can verify this yourself. Go to any current product page and right-click on the product's image, select the option "Open in New Tab/Window" and then examine the URL in the address field of the newly opened tab/window.

Demandware's cloud currently supports hundreds of online retailers besides the Mint and it's designed so that it automatically allocates capacity to client sites as neede, easily scaling up to support sudden spikes in traffic, such as those incurred during Black Friday and Green (Cyber) Monday. The Mint's activity spikes are due to big product drops, which are usually spread throughout the year. So, when ordinary retailers have activity spikes on Black Friday, for instance, the Mint's activity is normal and When the Mint has a spike in activity during a big product drop, ordinary retailers' activity is normal. The bottom line is that Demandware can support a crazy high number of Mint transactions during a big product drop. The Mint's new catalog system is pretty much state-of-the-art online retailing technology.

However, there is a fly in the ointment. All credit card payments to the Federal government (except those to the IRS) must be cleared through Pay.gov which is operated by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. I suspect that Pay.gov does NOT use state-of-the-art technology. From Pay.gov's perspective, the sudden deluge of transaction requests directed at it from the Mint's catalog system last Tuesday was probably almost indistinguishable from a Denial of Service cyber attack.

If a deficiency in Pay.gov processing is, indeed, the root cause of Tuesday's problems, then fixing Pay.gov is probably not in the cards in the near future. Instead, a work-around implemented in the Mint's catalog system is far more feasible as a quick fix. It might not be too hard, for instance, to add a throttle to the Mint software's pipe to Pay.gov which could slow the rate of transaction requests to a speed which can be handled successfully by Pay.gov.

Early reports of sets in hand sound like they are in better shape than the Trumans?

I recommend not telling everyone you bought 6 sets to flip..

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If you bought six sets directly from the mint or employed shill buyers to get them for you, then you're purposefully violating the household limit set by the mint (which is set to ensure fair and equitable distribution of mint products). That's unethical and a crappy thing to do. Buying within the household limits simply to flip isn't unethical, but it is pouring salt in the wounds of some here who were not so lucky. Of course if you purchased four of the sets off ebay or elsewhere other than the mint, then none of what I wrote above applies.

@Debrajc

Did they mention anything about billing for the sets?

One of the reasons you may have received that email regarding your order and its "On Hold" status is the Mint couldn't charge you for the sets due to some billing issue.