The United States Mint today will release one of its most popular annual numismatic offerings commonly referred to as the "Mint Set." The 2012 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® goes on sale beginning at Noon (Eastern) today, Monday, March 21, 2012.
Pricing on each Mint Set is listed at $27.95, plus the US Mint's standard shipping and handling charge of 4.95 per order. Each set contains a total of twenty-eight coins separated into two durable folders with each folder holding fourteen strikes. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint this week will be releasing products associated with the 2012 Native American Dollar and products associated with the 2012 Kennedy Half Dollar. These products all contain circulation quality examples of the coins despite the fact that neither is actually struck for release into general circulation.
Demand for both coins in circulation is negligible, thus the US Mint only offers them for sale directly to the public to fulfill collector demand. More information on the newly available products is offered below: [click to continue…]
The United States Mint today, April 26, 2012, will be releasing collectible rolls and boxes of the 2012 Native American $1 Coin. The six products (two different roll options and four different box options) will be available for ordering beginning at Noon (Eastern).
Collectors should be familiar with the 25 coin roll product as they have appeared in years past from the US Mint. However, the 250-coin and 500-coin boxes are a new production option from the United States Mint. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint today officially launched the 2011 Native American $1 Coin. The original release was scheduled for January 12, 2011, but the Mint was forced to cancel that event owing to a string of bad winter weather in the area during that time.
So, the Mint rescheduled the release for today. The event began at 10:30 AM (Eastern Time) and was held at the Henry Hornblower II Visitor Center on Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Attendees to the event included B. B. Craig, United States Mint Associate Director of Sales and Marketing, Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head; Cedric Cromwell, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe; and Jim Adams, senior historian of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
The plantations location, and the fact that the ceremony was held there, is not particularly surprising. It is located in Plymouth, Massachusetts, site of the original Plymouth Colony which was established by European settlers in 1620. It was also here that the first formal written peace alliance was created between the European settlers and Native Americans. [click to continue…]
The US Mint has rescheduled the launch ceremony for the 2011 Native American $1 Coin that it had originally planned to hold back in January.
A new date of March 25, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) has now been set for the $1 coin ceremony to be held at the Henry Hornblower II Visitor Center on Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This is the same location that the original celebration was to be held at.
The Mint was forced to postpone that original function owing to winter snowstorms that plagued the area that week. It had originally been planned for January 12, 2011.
Those who attend will be in for a unique time. The Plimoth Plantation is considered a living museum where costume role players assume the "lives" of actual 17th century residents of the Plymouth Colony. Some of these original residents went on to become the Pilgrims that every American school child is taught about. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint today announced the reverse design to be featured on the upcoming 2011 Native American $1 Coin.
The Mint describes the theme of the coin to be "Supreme Sachem Ousamequin, Massasoit of the Great Wampanoag Nation Creates Alliance with Settlers at Plymouth Bay (1621)." It is meant to signify the first formal written peace alliance between the Wampanoag tribe and European settlers.
To signify that alliance, a hand representing Supreme Sachem Ousamequin Massasoit is shown exchanging the peace pipe to the hand representing Governor John Carver. Also shown on the new reverse are the inscriptions of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, WAMPANOAG TREATY and 1621. [click to continue…]
The 2010 United States Mint Silver Proof Set™ has officially been released as of Noon (Eastern) today, Thursday August 26, 2010.
This set is always popular with collectors and comes a month after the Mint released the even more popular standard 2010 Proof Set. Both sets offer special proof versions of the fourteen circulating coins of the United States. However, making the Silver Proof Set unique is the fact that half of the coins included are struck from 90% silver.
Included in the set are the following coins:
- (4) 2010-S Presidential $1 Coins (Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, and Lincoln)
- (1) 2010-S Native American $1 Coin
- (1) 2010-S Kennedy half-dollar (struck from 90% silver)
- (5) 2010-S America the Beautiful Quarters (Hot Springs National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon National Park and Mount Hood National Forest) (struck from 90% silver)
- (1) 2010-S Roosevelt dime (struck from 90% silver)
- (1) 2010-S Jefferson nickel
- (1) 2010-S Lincoln cent [click to continue…]
Launched last week on July 22 was the 2010 United States Mint Proof Set®.
This set includes a total of fourteen coins representing the circulating coinage from the US Mint for the year, but these coins are struck to proof quality at the mint's facility in San Francisco. As such, each coin carries the appropriate 'S' mintmark.
Proof Sets have proven to be extremely popular with collectors in the past. Typically, more of these sets are sold each year by the Mint than any other set offered. According to unaudited figures from the Mint for last year, 1,477,967 of the 2009 version of the set were ordered.
While that number is impressive, it is nothing compared to the number of sets ordered in some of the previous years. Going back as recently as 2006, over 2 million of that year's dated sets were ordered. In 2000, an amazing 3,082,572 sets were sold by the Mint.
Still, these sets are sure to be a big hit with collectors. Included inside is a total of fourteen coins, all struck to proof quality so that they feature mirror-like backgrounds and enhanced detail. [click to continue…]
For those interested in the 2010 Native American $1 Coins, but not in the 250-coin boxes released earlier this month, a new option is now available from the United States Mint. Just released on Friday, January 22 with initial ship dates of Tuesday, January 26, the Mint has 25-coin rolls available for purchase.
Wrapped in special yellow and black paper, each roll indicates the year of minting (2010), the contents (Native American $1), the face value of all of the contents ($25) and the Mint facility that struck them (P for Philadelphia or D for Denver). Each roll contains 25 circulation quality strikes of the 2010 Native American design, but of course as they come directly from the Mint, they have never been in circulation making them ideal for collectors. [click to continue…]
The US Mint has released its first offering of the year with the 2010 Native American $1 Coin.
These circulating quality issues first appeared in 2000 as the Sacagawea Dollar, so named because the famous Native American heroine is featured on the obverse with a flying eagle on the reverse.
The line-up changed slightly last year when Congress mandated a new reverse image annually that celebrates 'the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States." [click to continue…]
The United States Mint today will release one of its most popular annual numismatic offerings commonly referred to as the "Mint Set." The 2012 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® goes on sale beginning at Noon (Eastern) today, Monday, March 21, 2012.
