The Mint’s 2017 one-coin Congratulations Set sold out in a couple of minutes April 4.
Buyers were motivated by the surprise inclusion of a 2017-S proof silver American Eagle instead of a 2017-W proof.
It is the first San Francisco proof silver Eagle since 2012.
Mintage of the set was 75,000. There were no restrictions placed on the number of sets that any buyer could acquire.
Complaints began to arrive in the office of Numismatic News for that very reason.
“The lack of ordering limits or high limits, keeps happening, over and over again at the Mint. What does it take for them to learn this cannot keep going on with issues that will be highly popular with collectors?” wrote Greg Davies in an email less than three hours after the sellout.
2017 one-coin Congratulations Set — Sold Out
