Why the 2026 Congratulations set should be a winner

My 2026 P Congratulations Eagle was delivered today.

@HalfDime said:
My shipped order for three also shows a W mintmark Congratulations set. Is the mint screwing up the two products and mixing them together?

Is it possible they are sending out 2025's on subscriptions over HHL?

Thanks man.

@mach19 said:
I give up man !

You can no longer subscribe for the 2026. If you subscribe now, you are subscribing for 2027 as the 2026 subscriptions have already shipped.

I was just able to add a 2026 unc ASE to my bag and got conformation email, did I just sub to a 2027? It says 2026

@jmlanzaf said:

@mach19 said:
I give up man !

You can no longer subscribe for the 2026. If you subscribe now, you are subscribing for 2027 as the 2026 subscriptions have already shipped.

Exactly.

@alaura22 said:
I was just able to add a 2026 unc ASE to my bag and got conformation email, did I just sub to a 2027? It says 2026

Check your subscriptions on the Mint Website.

@alaura22 said:
I was just able to add a 2026 unc ASE to my bag and got conformation email, did I just sub to a 2027? It says 2026

The different releases are getting confused.

This sub is for the (Enhanced) Uncirculated version, NOT the Congratulations Set. Next sub shipment for the Uncirculated is in APR-2026.

Source: https://www.usmint.gov/american-eagle-silver-one-ounce-uncirculated-coin-subscription-MT.html

Edited to add first sentence.

@alaura22 said:
I did, and it says 2026 unc ASE
I will take a screen grab later

I assumed you meant the 2026-P Congratulations set as that is the title of this thread. The 2026 uncirculated ASEs have not come out yet.

@alaura22 said:
I did, and it says 2026 unc ASE
I will take a screen grab later

Doesn't matter. All subscriptions, whether or not the coin sells out, ship at release. Any subscriptions entered from some point at around 5 days prior to release forward don't take effect until the next release. Period.

No matter how many more 2026s become available, none will be used to fulfill subscriptions. Ever. That ship sailed on Thursday.

Edit: You are in the wrong thread. There is another thread for the Enhanced Uncirculated. That 2026 subscription is indeed still open, since the coin has not yet been released.

@alaura22 said:

@HoneyMarket said:

@gyromac said:
so what is the USM going to do with the W Enhanced issue in April now? limit existing subscriptions to 1? if 500,000 proofs sold out in 20 minutes and 60,000 Ps in 15 can't imagine the 125,000 enhanced Ws lasting more than 30 minutes in April.

if you want one sign up for the 1 subscription now and dont complain in April when you get kicked out of the waiting room.

just saying.

yes...Subscribe now or complain later...

https://www.usmint.gov/american-eagle-silver-one-ounce-uncirculated-coin-subscription-MT.html

I was responding to this^

Also the wrong thread. Which is causing us to get our signals crossed.

Bottom line -- Proof ASE subscriptions for 2026 are now closed. Uncirculated are still open.

I got the waiting room. It showed 1 minute and lasted 3 minutes.
When I was let in they were gone...... ........they turned the lights off.

@Bullsitter said:
I got the waiting room. It showed 1 minute and lasted 3 minutes.
When I was let in they were gone...... ........they turned the lights off.

Likewise...

@mbogoman said:

@Bullsitter said:
I got the waiting room. It showed 1 minute and lasted 3 minutes.
When I was let in they were gone...... ........they turned the lights off.

Likewise...

I had no waiting room at all and at 7:30 neither of the 2 coins from the 26th were “add to bag”

@HalfDime said:
For the mint to have a waiting room for the coins left over from the big sale day is crazy, If it can't handle that traffic it shows how weak and clunky the website really is.

"Weak" is relative. I'm sure the waiting room is on autopilot, and kicks in when site traffic hits a certain level. Now that the word about 7:30 releases is out, with all the people hitting the site at 7:30 looking to grab something, it's not surprising the waiting room kicks in.

That said, it's not like a noon release, because there are a lot less people, and because whatever they have they sell in a nanosecond, so the waiting room also clears in no time. The site is not "weak." It is perfectly functional 99.99% of the time.

@jmlanzaf said:

@mbr33 said:

We won't know that until we see the sales report next week. We know they have several hundred thousand left to go on the dual dated coins, and we know they sold around 9K Philadelphia coins on Thursday.

But we don't exactly how many they sold to the Big Boys, or through subscription. 60K is a relatively small mintage for something like this, so it's hard to rationalize why they wouldn't have made all of them up front. TBD.

I think the sales report from 2/22 showed 28,828 of the Congrats at that stage. Add in whatever was available on Thursday and it looks like there’s some room to mint more.

There's almost no way they didn't mint all 60,000 for a variety of reasons. The 2/22 sales would only include subscriptions and any ABPP sales. It is quite likely there were 30,000 available on Thursday.

ATS was under 9k

@jmlanzaf said:

@IAK said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@mbr33 said:

We won't know that until we see the sales report next week. We know they have several hundred thousand left to go on the dual dated coins, and we know they sold around 9K Philadelphia coins on Thursday.

But we don't exactly how many they sold to the Big Boys, or through subscription. 60K is a relatively small mintage for something like this, so it's hard to rationalize why they wouldn't have made all of them up front. TBD.

I think the sales report from 2/22 showed 28,828 of the Congrats at that stage. Add in whatever was available on Thursday and it looks like there’s some room to mint more.

There's almost no way they didn't mint all 60,000 for a variety of reasons. The 2/22 sales would only include subscriptions and any ABPP sales. It is quite likely there were 30,000 available on Thursday.

ATS was under 9k

OK. And there were also subscriptions sold from 22nd through 26th, off and on. And my subscription didn't get processed until the 24th along with a number of other people on the forum.

Would you like to wager money that next week's sales show 55,000+ sold? The cost of stopping and restarting production is not insignificant and there's no reason they would bother with such a short run. It's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely that they didn't make all 60 000.

You commented "It is quite likely there were 30,000 available on Thursday."

There were under 9k "available on Thursday". That's verifiably true and was posted in this forum, was it not?

As for the 55k+ sold on the report, I will take the under but have no incentive to wager anything.

@IAK said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@IAK said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@mbr33 said:

We won't know that until we see the sales report next week. We know they have several hundred thousand left to go on the dual dated coins, and we know they sold around 9K Philadelphia coins on Thursday.

But we don't exactly how many they sold to the Big Boys, or through subscription. 60K is a relatively small mintage for something like this, so it's hard to rationalize why they wouldn't have made all of them up front. TBD.

I think the sales report from 2/22 showed 28,828 of the Congrats at that stage. Add in whatever was available on Thursday and it looks like there’s some room to mint more.

There's almost no way they didn't mint all 60,000 for a variety of reasons. The 2/22 sales would only include subscriptions and any ABPP sales. It is quite likely there were 30,000 available on Thursday.

ATS was under 9k

OK. And there were also subscriptions sold from 22nd through 26th, off and on. And my subscription didn't get processed until the 24th along with a number of other people on the forum.

Would you like to wager money that next week's sales show 55,000+ sold? The cost of stopping and restarting production is not insignificant and there's no reason they would bother with such a short run. It's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely that they didn't make all 60 000.

You commented "It is quite likely there were 30,000 available on Thursday."

There were under 9k "available on Thursday". That's verifiably true and was posted in this forum, was it not?

As for the 55k+ sold on the report, I will take the under but have no incentive to wager anything.

Yes, I was wrong to say Thursday, i should have said "this week". I'll correct it.

@HalfDime said:

@NJCoin said:
"Weak" is relative. I'm sure the waiting room is on autopilot, and kicks in when site traffic hits a certain level. Now that the word about 7:30 releases is out, with all the people hitting the site at 7:30 looking to grab something, it's not surprising the waiting room kicks in.

The waiting room was apparently a cheap fix to a clunky website that couldn't handle the traffic that the mint was capable of attracting. What they did was restrict the number of users instead of increasing capacity by locking out most visitors.

Also, the waiting room works differently depending on how many browsers we use. I got in after changing settings, with different times for different browsers. This suggests the mint does not use IP but cookies to do this.

There are many out there that probably know how to go around the mint waiting room and get to the front of the line. The "honest abes" meanwhile never get in.

Whatever. If they didn't do something to slow things down, "honest abes" would just be crowded out by bots, as always happened in the past.

No pleasing everyone. But I can tell you that, to date, I have not used any workarounds to avoid the waiting room, and have always been able to enter the website and buy what I want before sellout.