It appears the US Mint removed ALL information related to 2017-S Congratulations set - NOW IT's BACK
jessewvu
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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
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What the heck??
The name is LEE!
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.
What would the point of this be? Or would the most simple explanation of it just being a mistake be correct?
they would have to remove it from several places on the site. i can't say it was a mistake.
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?
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Didn't the congratulations set sell out in minutes?
Successful trades.... MichaelDixon,
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11723468/#Comment_11723468
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".)
Yup....makes sense to me that an item that has sold out should be removed from the website. A non-issue...
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.
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I just checked... my coin is still here....
Just wanted to be sure that it did not make everything disappear.... 
Cheers, RickO
Specs & description live on -- in the secondary market. http://www.apmex.com/product/149988/2017-s-1-oz-proof-silver-american-eagle-congratulations-set
Successful BST transactions with forum members thebigeng, SPalladino, Zoidmeister, coin22lover, coinsarefun, jwitten, CommemKing.
The page for the "sold out" 2016 set is still there.
...and Google is your friend
The Russians must have taken it down.
(sorry for the dry humor)
Because there was a typo, 750,000 mintage instead of 75,000.
Product page is back up. Weird.
https://catalog.usmint.gov/congratulations-set-2017-17RF.html?cgid=product-schedule
it's back up now....
They changed the URL for the set to something I've never seen before.
https://catalog.usmint.gov/congratulations-set-2017-17RF.html
does that mean they are going to sell more?