Any News On 25th Anniversary ASE Set?

Smokeriderdon, beautiful set, and couldn't agree more. Congratulations on getting one of those 25th anniv sets. I'm curious how many of the 100K went to CCF members; from all these threads, I'd say quite a few.

I received my official "You didn't get a 25th Anniversary ASE set" e-mail today. ARG.

Sorry you didn't get the sets you ordered, Gothic Florin.
What was your order number?

Gothic, did you receive a cofirmation to start with? Or did you get on the wait list?

Jack, thank you. VACookey gets all the credit though. She sat on two phones AND the computer for almost an hour straight and got through for two sets. Its great when your wife is into this stuff and works from home as well.

Bryan1315 After a close review one of my 2011S Bullion does show a rim ding. At about 10:45 on the Reverse. Just after the D in United. Is this where the reports mentioned.













The other SBullion is fine, but I did find on one of the Proof Eagles, almost in the same spot as yours. What seems like 2 unfinished spots. Just where the edge meets the rim. I'll have to take some pics of it tomorrow.
SO not as flawless as I first thought

Smoke...
As for aluminum foil helmets, aliens can pick up your thoughts easier that way. Its gotta be made out of carpet..
God I thought everyone knew that.

From the Nov 28 issue "Tom Jurkowsky, director of the U. S. Mint's Office of Public Affairs, reconfirmed to Coin World Nov. 11 that the bullion coin in the set is exclusively from San Francisco Mint production. Jurkowsky said Nov. 11 that the certificates of authenticity were likely produced before U. S. Mint officials made a final decision restricting the bullion coin production for the set to the San Francisco facility."

Mr. Jurkowsky's new statement is on page 18 of the November 28th issue of Coin World magazine, near the end of a front page article titled "Grading firms begin processing anniversary sets"

Didn't someone here say that PCGS should have asked Mr. Jurkowsky directly before issuing it's knee jerk response to the statement of an unnamed mint official. Now, they have to stay with what they have done because to do otherwise would mean admitting that they are fallible and I just don't see them doing that. They will find a way to justify their utterly childish reaction to the words on the COA.

Every bullion coin in every 25th anniversary set was minted in San Francisco and deserves the 2011-(S) designation.

So we really have THREE unique coins in this Set, NOT just two then right ?
Reverse Proof..... San Fran mint mark..... AND a Bullion with no mintmark, but we know it came from San Fransico as well.

So unless you got a green monster box, and sent in the whole box for certification, or buy one from somebody who did......there is no other way to get a "no S" San Fran. bullion ASE, other than this set, in the marketplace ?
I'd say, this should/would still make this coin rarer and unique, and set apart......enough to say there are THREE coins in this Set.....not TWO that are unique correct ?

Eaglefoot....Sorry to be dense but I am missing your "3rd unique coin" point...

The bullion coin in the set is exactly the same as every other bullion coin minted. Once the box is opened the three common coins become just that..common. Anyone can switch out or make up a set using 3 coins obtained months ago and added to the two keys (S & RP).

The COA that is in the box states the bullion coin came from either San Fran OR West Point.

Graded sets will have the (S) with a 25th Annie label which will give it some value but it will still have no mint origin designated.

Just because "we know" something is correct doesn't make it fact. I can send in a coin that I "know" is MS70 and it could come back a MS69. In reality it's a 69.

Edited to add: I should add that even if it was designated as (S) it would be no different than those millions of (S) Eagles already minted a lot of which have been labeled as (S). Definitely not unique...