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A bath. You should have given it 5 seconds in Ezest.
Besides the bath you took with old fatty, CAC sticker..

I know you asked for opinions on the coin, but my opinion is that I would not tell the folks at the house what you found. While they might not care about $500 or $1,000 or whatever in theory, they might suddenly find it very "emotionally valuable" to have old aunty's coin in their possession if they knew about it.

Just sayin'...

An opinion is what is holding it back.

I use kite string. I don't even need to tie it off. I just wrap it around the stack of slabs about a dozen times and then I just cut it from the roll of string. It keeps the slabs together and it's easy to unwrap the slabs for examination and then rewrap them for storage when I'm done

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I've become complacent about most Mint offerings these days, but......................can someone tell me what's special about this one?

Only 60 000 minted

Let's hope that doesn't change !

That one was posted. The uncirculated set never had a mintage limit posted. Actually still doesn't

Actually, this isn't true. Mintage Limits are never posted for them because they are circulating coins with no limit.

But they did publish a Product Limit for the set. It had been 190K, as I'm sure you know.

I also know you loaded up on these, expecting the same excitement we had last year. Did you know they recently raised the limit to 300K, concurrent with subscriptions again becoming available?

Kinda takes a lot of the air out of them at $124.50 each, no?

"Mintage Limit: None
Product Limit: 300,000
Household Order Limit: 10"

At this point, they really should just drop the price down to around $30, and make them to demand. To use the semiquincentennial as an opportunity to maybe stimulate interest in collecting, rather than as a cynical opportunity to profiteer. Killing the golden goose in the process.

Because there is not going to be a ton of interest in 300K base metal sets with $6 worth of coins at $124.50. Even with 600K cents unavailable elsewhere. Quite a premium to pay for NCLT zinc cents when there will be 600K of them floating around, and when they have zero intrinsic value. As evidenced by the fact that the subscriptions are now available and not selling out.

Yes, product limit.

They did NOT publish a product limit. There was a limit on the subscriptions but that has been on place since late last year. The actual item page still doesn't show a product limit. However, if you go to the congratulations set product page, it does say 60,000. We've been assuming (i mentioned this earlier) that the number on the subscription page was the product limit, however the subscription page is generic. In fact, the Congratulations subscription page also says 60,000 now, but that would have to refer to the 2027 coin not the 2026 and there's no reason to think that it has to be the same.

The Mint has been very slow to fill in the specifications for upcoming issues all year.

They might be slow to update, but it is certainly not generic. It is specific to the product.

When they are "slow to fill in the specifications," they are blank. In this case, they absolutely did go from 190K to 300K. As evidenced by the fact that they were unavailable for subscription, basically for months, until they magically became available again today, concurrent with the Product Limit on the subscription page increasing by 110K.

You showed a screenshot with 75 subscriptions. Are you keeping them now? I was in for a few, in spite of gagging on the price and resenting the money grab. Now, at 300K, I REALLY think they are overreaching, and that these will be duds. What do you think?

Still has no stated limits on the PRODUCT page. The subscription page is generic to the series.

I'm not sure why you keep saying this. The subscription is what people are now buying.

The Product Limit is NOT generic to the series. It is specific to the 2026 sets people are signing up for.

It literally changed, TODAY, from the 190K that applied to the 2025 sets, and that they were presumably going to use for this year, based on them stopping accepting subscription orders, until they chose to increase the Product Limit, reduce the HHL, and resume taking orders today.

Except the subscription numbers came from LAST YEAR and simply weren't updated for this year. I'm not sure why you are not following this, especially after you saw what happened when they finally updated them for the Mint Set. As I, again, point out, the 2027 Congratulations Set isn't even listed as a product yet, but if you buy the subscription it shows a 60,000 product limt which is left over from the 2026 set as a Congratulations Set subscription you purchase now DOES NOT APPLY to the 2026 set. If you buy a Congratulations Set subscription now, it is for 2027 and we have no idea what the product limit will be. It could be 10,000 or could be 100,000, but it is going to say 60,000 until sometime in 2027 when they make the update.

Edited to add: If you want further proof, the ATS number for the 2026 silver proof sets shows 156,000+ while the subscription still shows 151,200 as the "product limit". The subscription limits do not necessarily indicate product limits.

Always a double -play when buying the gold and platinum. It is a high premium - but I havent been disappointed yet in buying them each year.

Great idea using kite string. Thank you PerryHall.