Lucretia Garfield Unc In Stock and Reserved

Barney1955

Just noticed my Garfields Unc. Coins are in stock and reserved. I ordered these about 15 to 20 min. after they went dark.

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bigole

Mine just changed today as well. In stock and reserved.

I ordered 130 pm on 8/7/12.

felinfoel

Mine just shipped. Order Date: 08/07/2012 at 05:03 PM

I wrote this one off; am very surprised it shipped.

Overdate

According to the August 14 U.S. Mint weekly sales report, a sky-high total of 525 unc. Lucretias were ordered in the final week of sales, boosting cumulative sales from 1,973 to 2,498. Many of these sales likely occurred after the coin had gone on "backorder" but before it went totally dark.

I suspect that the number of "backordered" coins exceeded the actual number of coins available for sale, and that many of the orders will eventually be cancelled due to being "out of stock". As I recall, this has happened in the past, for instance with many of the burnished Platinum Eagles and some of the "Liberty" First Spouses. The final mintages for these coins turned out to be less than total sales reported in the final sales reports.

My guess is that the actual mintage of the unc. Lucretia is in the neighborhood of 2,200 (similar to the Lucy Hayes coin), which would mean that only around 225 to 250 of the 525 coins ordered in the final week of sales will be delivered. IMO. We shall see.

goldbuffalo

I got one also, hope this turns out to be the low mintage coin.