http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/2009-us-lincoln-coin-and-chronicles-set-added-to-mint-store/101406/ Guide to silver coins, world coin news, silver coin prices, silver spots, and silver coin melt calculators provided by SilverCoinsToday.com. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/2009-us-lincoln-coin-and-chronicles-set-added-to-mint-store/101406/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Sam Shannon Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:40:20 +0000 http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/?p=1406#comment-632 The US Mint's website crashed on 10/15/2009 and service center would not answer their phones. So how did the Lincoln Cronicles sell out in 24 hours? If the website had not crashed the set would have sold out in minutes... The problem with the mint is that they continued to isell subscriptions for proof and uncirculated silver and gold coins until the day they announced suspension of gold and silver Amrerican Eagles. BTW When you place an order with the US Mint your order is placed on a waiting list at the Mint's distribution center. It doesn't matter wheather your order is the first in the cue or the last, all orders are backorders (waiting list) until the distribution ceneter actually pulls the coin for shipment. The only way for customers to stop this is for all of us to demand the mint to generate a number corresponding to our position on the waiting list. If you are number 51,001 in a 50,000 coin issue then the customer knows that they should consider shopping for the coin on the seconary market. The US Mint’s website crashed on 10/15/2009 and service center would not answer their phones. So how did the Lincoln Cronicles sell out in 24 hours? If the website had not crashed the set would have sold out in minutes… The problem with the mint is that they continued to isell subscriptions for proof and uncirculated silver and gold coins until the day they announced suspension of gold and silver Amrerican Eagles. BTW When you place an order with the US Mint your order is placed on a waiting list at the Mint’s distribution center. It doesn’t matter wheather your order is the first in the cue or the last, all orders are backorders (waiting list) until the distribution ceneter actually pulls the coin for shipment. The only way for customers to stop this is for all of us to demand the mint to generate a number corresponding to our position on the waiting list. If you are number 51,001 in a 50,000 coin issue then the customer knows that they should consider shopping for the coin on the seconary market.

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