It appears the US Mint removed ALL information related to 2017-S Congratulations set - NOW IT's BACK

jessewvu · June 8, 2017 5:36PM

I searched high and low and it is like it was wiped off the us mint servers... Tried wayback machine and only 1 snapshot was taken on 11 march. It's not in the product schedule (where the 2016 still is) and it's nowhere to be found.

Can anyone find the webpage? i wanted to see the coin specifications section.

Here is the original:
https://catalog.usmint.gov/congratulations-set-2017-17RF.htm

19Lyds · June 8, 2017 6:01PM

What the heck??

TopographicOceans · June 8, 2017 6:08PM

As always, should you or any of your I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This tape/disc will self-destruct in five/ten seconds.

hutze1nm · June 8, 2017 6:11PM

What would the point of this be? Or would the most simple explanation of it just being a mistake be correct?

jessewvu · June 8, 2017 6:51PM

they would have to remove it from several places on the site. i can't say it was a mistake.

dpoole · June 8, 2017 7:47PM

It will be interesting to see what this does to the total mintage of the ASE 2017-S proof. Are they harvesting them from the unsold and stagnant Congratulation Sets to supply the special silver set later in the year?

UnclePennyBags · June 8, 2017 7:55PM

@dpoole said:
It will be interesting to see what this does to the total mintage of the ASE 2017-S proof. Are they harvesting them from the unsold and stagnant Congratulation Sets to supply the special silver set later in the year?

Didn't the congratulations set sell out in minutes?

BackroadJunkie · June 9, 2017 1:49AM

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11723468/#Comment_11723468

BackroadJunkie · June 9, 2017 2:06AM

@hutze1nm said:
What would the point of this be? Or would the most simple explanation of it just being a mistake be correct?

The Mint now (since being with PFSWeb) has this policy of removing any webpage of a product that will never be available again via the Mint web store.

When the Mint was with PBGS, the pages stayed around forever. It was very good for historical research. Now, the Mint will remove pages shortly after a product is "sold out". (As opposed to "product unavailable".)

BigA · June 9, 2017 4:36AM

Yup....makes sense to me that an item that has sold out should be removed from the website. A non-issue...

ADG · June 9, 2017 5:49AM

Why remove a sold out item from the product schedule page? That page is a reference guide to Mint products for the year. Now acting as if a sold out product never existed. That makes no sense.

ricko · June 9, 2017 6:06AM

I just checked... my coin is still here.... Just wanted to be sure that it did not make everything disappear.... Cheers, RickO

COCollector · June 9, 2017 6:50AM

@jessewvu said:
... Can anyone find the webpage? i wanted to see the coin specifications section...

Specs & description live on -- in the secondary market. http://www.apmex.com/product/149988/2017-s-1-oz-proof-silver-american-eagle-congratulations-set

FellintoOblivion · June 9, 2017 1:08PM

@BackroadJunkie said:

@hutze1nm said:
What would the point of this be? Or would the most simple explanation of it just being a mistake be correct?

The Mint now (since being with PFSWeb) has this policy of removing any webpage of a product that will never be available again via the Mint web store.

When the Mint was with PBGS, the pages stayed around forever. It was very good for historical research. Now, the Mint will remove pages shortly after a product is "sold out". (As opposed to "product unavailable".)

The page for the "sold out" 2016 set is still there.

BigA · June 9, 2017 1:48PM

@COCollector said:

@jessewvu said:
... Can anyone find the webpage? i wanted to see the coin specifications section...

Specs & description live on -- in the secondary market. http://www.apmex.com/product/149988/2017-s-1-oz-proof-silver-american-eagle-congratulations-set

...and Google is your friend