Less than 70,000 Lincoln silver $1 commemorative coins are still available before the maximum mintage of 450,00 is reached. That means anyone wanting one for their collection had better act quick or settle for buying one on the secondary market.
A Lincoln commemorative sellout seems possible with the numbers rising by a combined 100,000 this week.
The 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Silver Dollar will be released by the U.S. Mint at noon Feb. 12 to commemorate Lincoln’s 200th birthday.
It’s out with the old and in with the new as a new product year takes hold at the U.S. Mint. The 2011 commemorative coins were far off the mark in meeting maximum mintages, which is not only a blow to the Mint’s sales bottom line, but to the programs their surcharges were aimed to benefit.
At first blush, it would seem that sales of Boy Scout commemorative silver dollars and their Disabled Veterans counterparts were going their separate ways.
Washington and Adams dollars went off sale and off the page to make room for Lincoln commemorative dollars. Total mintage is 500,000.
The Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set arrives this week with a sellout number of 51,000. That’s 1,000 over the maximum allowed, but not to worry. That will be whittled back to the 50,000 by the time all credit card and other problems are worked through.
If there was just one statistic on this page and it was the Formative Years two-roll Lincoln cent set, that would probably satisfy the vast majority of readers.
For the first time in a couple of weeks, uncirculated 2011-W silver American Eagle collector coin sales rose. The total was up by 8,827 to reach 190,927. The wave of cancelled orders due to the cut in its price has apparently finished washing over these numbers. The total is still fewer than the 194,000 registered in the Sept. 26 Mint report.
Two-roll sets of the Lincoln Presidency cent design have gone on sale and in less than a week the Mint has sold 153,427 of them. That’s a strong start, but it isn’t strong enough to predict a sellout.
