No matter what it says on my order Tracking page.. I'll believe it when the mailman hands it to me.. until then, it's just pixels on a computer screen..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
They just (in the past few minutes).. smacked my plastic for $55.95.. (they already charged me the $4.95 Postage for the 2009 Mint Set I put on the same order as the Lincoln Set.. and that shipped out to me three days ago..)..
"Backordered, expected to ship 10/30/2009" has changed to "in stock and reserved".. cancel box gone.. again.. we're making progress.. maybe they WILL start shipping them earlier than 10/30/2009..
I hate to sound like a stuck record, but.. I'll believe it when the mailman hands it to me..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Cancel box gone this afternoon on both the "Track Order" page and the "Account User" page. This......................................is good. I continue............................. to wait.
Is there any sign from the grading companies that a special designation/label will be offered for sealed sets? Any rumor? I asked NGC and got no response (at least as of right now).
<< <i>Is there any sign from the grading companies that a special designation/label will be offered for sealed sets? Any rumor?
They should offer a label that says: "You paid $60+ for $1.04 in a pretty package." >>
There is some merit to this arguement but then again...
Many collectors love finding coins in the OGP, early proof sets come to mind.
This packaging is an attractive display more so than usual and has a single unifying theme of Lincoln.
The its only packagaing logic can be carried out to the coins themselves, hence a gold coin struck, whether it was struck 1795 or 1933, can be viewed as a form of packaging the metal itself. Why pay all that premium, when you can purchase the same amount of gold raw or ingot form for much less?
<< <i>Not true! I paid 60 bucks for closer to $20.00 in stuff (1oz silver)
Jeff
We could change the label to say $18 melt if it makes you feel happier.
>>
There is .77 oz of silver in the silver dollar.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Coin Update News: "The sets went on sale Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:00 Noon ET. By 5:00 PM ET, sales had reached nearly 30,000 units. The maximum sales of 50,000 units were reached at approximately 6:00 PM ET on October 16."
If you've been charged for your set, (or setS, if you're one of those sneaky "got everyone and his monkey to order one for me" types).. and you / we get that "We shipped it.. here's a Tracking number so stop checking already!" email.. which no one seems to have gotten yet, but I betcha we'll start getting them tomorrow.. and you're not next door to Indiana.. well, unless you paid the absurd charge for "Express shipping".. it's gonna be a while.. so don't camp out by the mailbox for a while..
I ordered a 2009 Mint Set along with the Lincoln set.. they shipped the Mint Set out of Indiana on 16 October.. the Fedex "SmartPost [tm]" Tracking number says that so far, it's made it all the way to Wisconsin as of an hour ago.. Wisconsin?.. Yoo Hoo.. wrong direction, Einstein!.. they guesstimate another week..
Meanwhile, I bought a thingie from an eBay seller.. he sent it in a First Class parcel padded mailer to me from Texas, Postmarked this past Saturday.. I figured I'd be lucky to see it by the end of this week.. it showed up in my mailbox, in Calif., today.. two days from TX to So. Calif.. yes, TX is closer to CA. than Indiana is.. but two days for a First Class Parcel over the course of a weekend is pretty freakin' fast!..
Fedex SmartPost [tm] should be re-named Fedex Glacially Slow SquirmMail [tm].. the time it takes to get whatever you ordered from The Mint is in direct inverse proportion to how badly you want it.. and how impatient you are..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
<< <i>Has anyone noticed that the Lincoln Silver Dollar by itself goes for around $50 on eBay?
The Chronicles set isn't a bad deal at all at $60 >>
I expected them to slap a MUCH higher price on this set.. I was very pleasantly surprised at the price.. sure, you can argue all day that, per face value, it's $1.04 worth of coins.. but it's not $1.04 worth of coins.. any more than a 1 oz. AGE is $50.00 worth of coin.. you show me where they give out Lincoln $s in change.. (when they get to the Lincoln Presidential $, that'll be another matter.. and I expect those to sell like the proverbial hotcakes).. IMO, this is a set to keep intact.. not break up and have its coins slabbed and end up with five slabs and a fancy package with five holes in it.. some things should be left the way they are, and I think this is one of them.. am I in the minority?..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
<< <i>some things should be left the way they are, and I think this is one of them.. am I in the minority? >>
No I feel the same way. I also have a few uncirculated 2008w buffalo sets that I had graded. I expected some 69's that I could crack out and place back in the original box but PCGS was super generous and gave me all 70's for the $5 buffs. Now I am contemplating cracking one out to place back in the set raw lol. Or just buy a 69 and do the same thing. Yes I agree wholeheartely with you!
The original mint packaging, to me, looks far superior to the PCGS multi slab. If this were to be along the line of what PCGS might do (assuming they would do it at all), I would say they're wasting their time.
What kind of label do they put on it if one is a 70, three are 69s, and one is a 68?.. Could they even cram that much information onto that label?..
Or were they all in individual 69 slabs to begin with, and then re-submitted to get into this huge slab?..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Hello to all of you "forumites"!! Thanks to a great circle of friends and family, I have a total of 13 sets heading out. I like the looks of the set but wished they had made it even more tamper resistant. (will have to see it in person to know for sure). I'd also like to have one of the TPGs grade the set in the original case and then place a tamper-proof strip around the case. Look forward to learning more here.
So, if you were going to custome design a slab for 1 dollar and 4 cents, would you make all 5 lenses the sme size, and thus the mega slab more mega than required, or make 4 small lenses and one large?
<< <i>Not true! I paid 60 bucks for closer to $20.00 in stuff (1oz silver)
Jeff
We could change the label to say $18 melt if it makes you feel happier.
Seriously, though. There is nothing special about these coins other than the packaging, at least not that we know of at this point.
All of the coins in this set were released as part of other sets.
The idea of giving them a special label (and spending the $$ to get it) simply because they were purchased in this packaging is pretty silly.
They look pretty nice in the set they're in. Unless there's a special finish on the cents or something, it's probably best to leave them be. >>
Agree.
To take this outside of the OGP would make little sense, and none at all if there is no special finish. I believe I misread the point of your first post nycounsel.
Seems to me that if these might be slabbed by falling within whatever guidelines the TPG's dictate, they'd have announced that fact well before the sets became available. In point-of-fact, since others have mentioned - accurately, I believe - that these coins could be exchanged undetected, the TPG's would clearly have concluded this when the release was announced, and required they be sent to the TPG unopened from the Mint.
Grade them if you wish, but I prefer the stately, well designed OGP to that horrid 5-coin thingy. That, I believe, is where the premium is, and will be.
On the other hand, I've been told I've been wrong before... I may be told that yet again...
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A Truth That's Told With Bad Intent Beats All The Lies You Can Invent
Comments
<< <i>33160*** Ditto...in stock, reserved.
Miles >>
#33163xxx In stock and reserved....cancel box is still there!!!
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Product Name Quantity Price
(each) Total Item Status Cancel
2009 LINCOLN COIN & CHRONICLES SET 1 $55.95 $55.95 In stock and reserved
<< <i>
<< <i>33160*** Ditto...in stock, reserved.
Miles >>
#33163xxx In stock and reserved....cancel box is still there!!! >>
In S & R, Cancel box gone, ordered at 12:18...Hard to say what's gonna happen from here, since the change to pbgs who knows what to expect...
In stock and reserved though.
They should start shipping this week hopefully.
Joe
Just checked my account and the cancel box it gone.
Cancel box gone......dis is good??
Date Description Amount
10/20/2009 US MINT COIN SA $60.90
Maybe dey gonna ship....
In stock and reserved
Cancel box gone this morning.
Order # 33161xxx
Should be shipping by pony express this week.
"Backordered, expected to ship 10/30/2009" has changed to "in stock and reserved".. cancel box gone.. again.. we're making progress.. maybe they WILL start shipping them earlier than 10/30/2009..
I hate to sound like a stuck record, but.. I'll believe it when the mailman hands it to me..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Cancel box gone this afternoon on both the "Track Order" page and the "Account User" page. This......................................is good. I continue............................. to wait.
Order No. 33159XXX
Ditto...for me...and my two alter egos....
WHA HA HA HA!!!
<< <i>In stock & reserved - cancel box gone.
..........Same here. Ordered 12:50......Looks like going out this week.
Jeff
Here they come.
Joe
They should offer a label that says: "You paid $60+ for $1.04 in a pretty package."
<< <i>Is there any sign from the grading companies that a special designation/label will be offered for sealed sets? Any rumor?
They should offer a label that says: "You paid $60+ for $1.04 in a pretty package." >>
Not true! I paid 60 bucks for closer to $20.00 in stuff (1oz silver)
Jeff
you are better off slabbing:
plus
Whatever you are, be a good one. ---- Abraham Lincoln
<< <i>Is there any sign from the grading companies that a special designation/label will be offered for sealed sets? Any rumor?
They should offer a label that says: "You paid $60+ for $1.04 in a pretty package." >>
There is some merit to this arguement but then again...
Many collectors love finding coins in the OGP, early proof sets come to mind.
This packaging is an attractive display more so than usual and has a single unifying theme of Lincoln.
The its only packagaing logic can be carried out to the coins themselves, hence a gold coin struck, whether it was struck 1795 or 1933, can be viewed as a form of packaging the metal itself. Why pay all that premium, when you can purchase the same amount of gold raw or ingot form for much less?
The Chronicles set isn't a bad deal at all at $60
Jeff
We could change the label to say $18 melt if it makes you feel happier.
Seriously, though. There is nothing special about these coins other than the packaging, at least not that we know of at this point.
All of the coins in this set were released as part of other sets.
The idea of giving them a special label (and spending the $$ to get it) simply because they were purchased in this packaging is pretty silly.
They look pretty nice in the set they're in. Unless there's a special finish on the cents or something, it's probably best to leave them be.
<< <i>In stock & reserved - cancel box gone.
order complete @ 12:20
<< <i>Is there any sign from the grading companies that a special designation/label will be offered for sealed sets? Any rumor?
They should offer a label that says: "You paid $60+ for $1.04 in a pretty package." >>
$17.65 of metal in a pretty package
Box of 20
<< <i>Not true! I paid 60 bucks for closer to $20.00 in stuff (1oz silver)
Jeff
We could change the label to say $18 melt if it makes you feel happier.
>>
There is .77 oz of silver in the silver dollar.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>33181*** >>
In Stock and Reserved Cancel box gone. CC $ on hold.
BST successful dealings with:MsMorrisine, goldman86
Coin Update News: "The sets went on sale Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:00 Noon ET. By 5:00 PM ET, sales had reached nearly 30,000 units. The maximum sales of 50,000 units were reached at approximately 6:00 PM ET on October 16."
Coin Update News
I ordered a 2009 Mint Set along with the Lincoln set.. they shipped the Mint Set out of Indiana on 16 October.. the Fedex "SmartPost [tm]" Tracking number says that so far, it's made it all the way to Wisconsin as of an hour ago.. Wisconsin?.. Yoo Hoo.. wrong direction, Einstein!.. they guesstimate another week..
Meanwhile, I bought a thingie from an eBay seller.. he sent it in a First Class parcel padded mailer to me from Texas, Postmarked this past Saturday.. I figured I'd be lucky to see it by the end of this week.. it showed up in my mailbox, in Calif., today.. two days from TX to So. Calif.. yes, TX is closer to CA. than Indiana is.. but two days for a First Class Parcel over the course of a weekend is pretty freakin' fast!..
Fedex SmartPost [tm] should be re-named Fedex Glacially Slow SquirmMail [tm].. the time it takes to get whatever you ordered from The Mint is in direct inverse proportion to how badly you want it.. and how impatient you are..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
<< <i>Has anyone noticed that the Lincoln Silver Dollar by itself goes for around $50 on eBay?
The Chronicles set isn't a bad deal at all at $60 >>
I expected them to slap a MUCH higher price on this set.. I was very pleasantly surprised at the price.. sure, you can argue all day that, per face value, it's $1.04 worth of coins.. but it's not $1.04 worth of coins.. any more than a 1 oz. AGE is $50.00 worth of coin.. you show me where they give out Lincoln $s in change.. (when they get to the Lincoln Presidential $, that'll be another matter.. and I expect those to sell like the proverbial hotcakes).. IMO, this is a set to keep intact.. not break up and have its coins slabbed and end up with five slabs and a fancy package with five holes in it.. some things should be left the way they are, and I think this is one of them.. am I in the minority?..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
<< <i>some things should be left the way they are, and I think this is one of them.. am I in the minority? >>
No I feel the same way. I also have a few uncirculated 2008w buffalo sets that I had graded. I expected some 69's that I could crack out and place back in the original box but PCGS was super generous and gave me all 70's for the $5 buffs. Now I am contemplating cracking one out to place back in the set raw lol. Or just buy a 69 and do the same thing. Yes I agree wholeheartely with you!
you are better off slabbing:
plus
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VOILA, IT'S DONE AND SOLD FOR $103.00
<< <i>
What kind of label do they put on it if one is a 70, three are 69s, and one is a 68?.. Could they even cram that much information onto that label?..
Or were they all in individual 69 slabs to begin with, and then re-submitted to get into this huge slab?..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
Thanks to a great circle of friends and family, I have a total of 13 sets heading out. I like the looks of the set but wished they had made it even more tamper resistant. (will have to see it in person to know for sure).
I'd also like to have one of the TPGs grade the set in the original case and then place a tamper-proof strip around the case.
Look forward to learning more here.
Bottomsup!!!
Order Date: 10/15/2009 at 12:21 AM
2009 LINCOLN COIN & CHRONICLES SET 1 $55.95 $55.95 In stock and reserved
Sweet.....One step closer to arriving
<< <i>Not true! I paid 60 bucks for closer to $20.00 in stuff (1oz silver)
Jeff
We could change the label to say $18 melt if it makes you feel happier.
Seriously, though. There is nothing special about these coins other than the packaging, at least not that we know of at this point.
All of the coins in this set were released as part of other sets.
The idea of giving them a special label (and spending the $$ to get it) simply because they were purchased in this packaging is pretty silly.
They look pretty nice in the set they're in. Unless there's a special finish on the cents or something, it's probably best to leave them be. >>
Agree.
To take this outside of the OGP would make little sense, and none at all if there is no special finish.
I believe I misread the point of your first post nycounsel.
<< <i>Looks like the cut-off is between 33212XXX and 33218XXX. >>
If it helps any, my order number is 33211xxx and mine says "in stock and reserved" with cancel box. I ordered at roughly 7:00PM CDT on the 15th.
Still waiting!!!
Bottomsup
I agree.
Take the coins out of the mint holder and put them into a TPG plastic holder? What for?
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
as sent from the Mint. Why mess with
perfection.
Camelot
Grade them if you wish, but I prefer the stately, well designed OGP to that horrid 5-coin thingy. That, I believe, is where the premium is, and will be.
On the other hand, I've been told I've been wrong before... I may be told that yet again...
A Truth That's Told With Bad Intent
Beats All The Lies You Can Invent