Harrison Presidential $1 Coin and First Spouse Medal Set

The Presidential Dollar and First Spouse Medal Set for William Henry Harrison and Anna Harrison will go on sale at the US Mint on April 7, 2009 at 12:00 Noon ET. Past releases for these interesting little sets have proved to be very popular.

Each set includes one 2009-P Uncirculated William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar and one Anna Harrison First Spouse Bronze Medal. The coin and medal are placed on a custom designed card featuring portraits of the President and spouse. The sets are priced at $7.95 each.

The two coins included in the set are already (or will be) attainable through other US Mint products. The 2009 Uncirculated William Henry Harrison Dollar will be included in the 2009 Presidential $1 Coin Uncirculated Set which goes on sale later this week. It will also be included in the regular 2009 Mint Set, which should go on sale some time this summer.

The Anna Harrison First Spouse Bronze Medal is already available for sale individually, priced at $3.50. You can find this product on the US Mint's website here. The medal will also be included in the 2009 First Spouse Bronze Medal Set, which will include all five of the 2009 First Spouse Medals. This product is slated to go on sale in the winter.

Despite the separate options, many seem to prefer the distinctively packaged coin and medal set and have been willing to pay up for some of the previously sold out sets. I wrote previously about the First Spouse Bronze Medals outperforming the corresponding Gold Coins. Many seem to have taken note of this and started paying more attention to the medals. Recently, sold out products containing the medals still seem to be appreciating, but not as much as some of the earlier issues.

The US Mint still has the two prior coin and medal sets available for sale, which feature Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

Update: The product page for the Harrison Presidential Coin and First Spouse Medal is now posted here. The US Mint also appears to have raised the price of the set to $8.95, although a prior press release announced the price at $7.95.

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MASTERS OF DECEIT - Part III

MASTERS OF DECEIT - PART III

Upon Obama's inauguration, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, poured like a flood into every position of power in the Executive branch of the government, replacing Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations members who previously held those positions under the Bush administration, plus some new ones.

When you examine the U.S. ruling class, you would have to say that they are a really pathetic bunch of bunglers and a sorry excuse for a ruling class. The problem is, you go from Bill Clinton to Obama, and what remains the same is the ruling elite which gives the puppets the marching orders to act on, orders that are insane to say the least. They are basically bankrupting the country and will lead to the eventual collapse of Western Civilization. What they are doing is using the existence of the United States, a formerly powerful nation state to act their Wall Street fantasies of world domination and maintaining their capital structures and maintaining their system of looting. The have basically hijacked our country and we HAVE to take it back from them. We have to DRIVE Wall Street OUT of the government. Only then can we have any sort of reasonable prospect to getting back to prosperity and have peace and order in our international affairs. It is ONLY the willdully ignorant or the uneducated that cannot see what is going on.

What money hungry elite have done is set up a power elite, and I am not talking about your common run-of-the mill millionaire either. You cannot become a member of their club unless you are a multi-billionaire. This is not about rich versus poor, rather it is about a very small handful of the worst criminal element on earth who are manipulating and destroying the decent people of this nation and the world.

Now you take Barack Obama, look at the people he has put into his administration to, so-called, mastermind the economic recovery. LARRY SUMMERS: every time his name is mentioned, he is referred to as 'BRILLENT', he is the one who helped to dismantle the 'Glass-Segal Act' (The Banking Act), which was put into place in the 1930's so that the banks couldn't become the crooks they are today. In the 1990's, you had the beginning of the derivatives bubble, thanks to ALAN GREENSPAN, RUBIN, SUMMERS, who are now back in the Obama administration. The derivatives are at the center of the financial mess we are facing today. And the biggest farce was Obama's pick of TIMOTHY GEITHNER, the tax dodger and former head of the New York Federal Reserve as well as a Robert Rubin protege, as the Secretary of Treasury. As we all know, or should know, the Federal Reserve is like the Federal Express, in that it is privately held. It is a privately owned banking cartel. Wall Street has hijacked Washington,DC in broad daylight.

Every single one of Obama's appointees solidly supports the status quo. Every single one of his appointees is there to SHAFT the American people, and everysingle one of his appointees are working to bring down the Republic and destroy the Constitution. The following are just a few of Obama's appointees:

TIMOTHY GEITHNER - Treasury Secretary: Member of the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission.

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Secretary of State: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and married to Trilateral Commission member, William Jefferson Clinton.

Susan Rice - Ambassador to the United Nations: Member of the Trilateral Commission.

Gen. James L. Jones - National Security Advisor: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Thomas Donilon - Deputy National Security Advisor: Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Henry Kissinger - State Department Special Envoy: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Paul Volker - Chairman of the Economic Recovery Committee: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Admiral Dennis C. Blair - Director of National Security: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Robert Gates - Secretary of Defense: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

James Steinberg - Deputy Secretary of State: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Richard M. Haas - State Department Special Envoy: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Alan Greenspan - Presidential Advisor: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Richard C. Holbrooke - State Department Special Envoy: Member of the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

The list goes on and on. Even if Barack Hussein Obama was the most wonderful person in the whole world, it would not lessen the fact that he was groomed and brought to power by the global elite to carry out THEIR agenda. Americans must learn to look past Obama and realize that our presidents come and go, but the shadow government and their program of global enslavement continues on.

The question must be posed; "How can people be so stupid and gullible to believe a bunch of political hacks?" People who are blindly devoted to Obama had a visceral hatred of G.W. Bush and Dick Cheny, right from the start of his first term in office. Bush was no angel and his administration turned out to be a real disappointment to all Conservatives, but the major part of the left's hatred for him was purposely spawned and nourished through lies, half-truths and omissions on the part of the oligarch controlled leftis media, because they had a twisted desire to punish the Republicans due to a false belief that the presidential election was stolen from them by the Republicans in 2000. By the end of Bush's second term, he had sold the American people down the river toward a global depression, but the real tragedy is that Obama is there solely to frustrate and deceive all of the hopes of the people. He is a hoax and a sham. He is the direct opposite of what you would expect from an American president. this is what the elites groomed him to be, and it is utterly disturbing to see otherwise decent people falling for the high tech propaganda over and over again.

following 9/11, people were swept inmass into a mob psychology insanely throwing their common sense to the wind, doing whatever the administration told them to do. Eventually, the general public began to realize what a deceitful lying thug G.W. Bush turned out to be, and that our economy was in free fall, but there in the midst of it all was Barack Hussein Obama, speaking out against the abuse of the people at the hands of the establishment. With the election of Barack Obama, the world rejoiced that the Unite States was no loger in the hands of mad men, but unfortunately for humanity, Obama was just another vicious fraud. Oh sure, he has a pretty smile and he speaks gently, he is intelligent, and he appears as a man of peace, and he is as charismatic as they come, but the truth is, a tree is measured by the quality of its fruit. When you strip away all of the glitz and glamour, the fancy rhetoric, it is what he does for the people and the country that is important, and that starts with telling the TRUTH.

So far, Obama has proven himself to be a consummate liar. He promised to pull our troops out of Iraq in six months of being elected, but after he was inaugurated, his story changed. Now he says that he will "look" at bringing SOME of the troops home in sixteen months. Two weeks later, he changed his story again, saying the administration will "look" at bringing some of the troops home in twenty-three months. He knew all along that he couldn't keep his promises because people way more powerful then he, had put them there. Now he is going to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, doubling the total number of troops in the crosshairs of the enemy.

Obama then announced that he was going to move missile systems into Eastern Europe, that would in essence encircle Russia, but then what would one expect after he kept Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates? The outcome of this policy of meddling around Russia's borders is that we will be tied to the defense of the Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, etc., and if they should decide to start a war, it could easily escalate into a thermo nuclear war. Bush and Chaney never got as far as Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, or any of the other elitests pulling Obama's strings.

Obama swore that he would repeal the Patriot Act, but then as Senator, he voted for its reauthorization. He decried the Bush administrations warrentless wiretapping, and then he voted to legalize it. He pledged that he would filibuster any attempt to give retroactive immunity to the telecom industry, but then turned around and voted for it. He told the American workers, in speach after speach, that he would renegotiate NAFTA to make it fairer for American workers. But then his campaign was caught sending out memos to top corporate leaders telling them not to worry, because it was just campaign rhetoric. Presidential candidate Obama was caught on camera publicly criticizing the North American Free Trade Agreement in a bid for votes, while privately telling Canadian Officials not to worry about it.

Obama said that he wasd going to bring peace to the Middle East, and that he was going to bring us transparency in government and balance the budget. He promised that he would not have lobbyists in his cabinet, he was going to clean up government, but point by point, during the first month of his administration, he has lied, deceived and cheated the American people. The people of the United States and the world were full of hope that Obama was the real deal, but in his first week in office, he signed an executive order that was supposed to be for the closing of Gitmo and other secret prisons, but then the press actually had a chance to read the executive order and were shocked to find that the order said that Obama was ONLY thinking of closing Gitmo in a year, but worse yet, the order continued the practice of rendition. Obama is now continuing the practice of secret arrest, secret prisons and indefinite detention without trial. 4.) Telegraph.co.uk: When a British High Court said that it was preparing to release secret British and U.S. "TORTURE ORDERS" that PROVE that the Bush administration was ordering personnel to systematically abuse detainees, Barack Obama threatened to cut off ALL U.S. intelligence ties to England, then to add insult to injury, Obama stated that the program was important to national security. Thus Obama was not only endorsing Bush's crimes, he was continuing them. I cannot report on all of Obama's lies and deceits, or I would never get this series done, because there are new ones popping up all the time, so I will cover just one more BIG one in PART IV.

PART IV will be posted on Friday, April 3rd.

NOW, HOW ABOUT A LITTLE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GUN CONTROL?

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Road Closures For Cherry Blossom Parade

On Saturday April 4, 2009 the following road closures will be made to allow for the Cherry Blossom Parade.

Madison and Jefferson Drives in the National Mall will be closed from 5:00am until 1:00pm.

Constitution Avenue will be closed from 4th Street to 23rd Street from 9:00am until 1:00pm with the section of 7th Street through 9th Street closing at 5:30am.

7th Street will be closed between Independence Avenue and Constitution Avenue from 5:00am until 1:00pm.

US Park Police Officers will be present and able to assist visitors during these closures.

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US Mint Bags & Rolls Offerings Sell Out

Some of the US Mint's 2009 bags and rolls offerings are turning up as surprise sell outs and big winners on the secondary market. The outlier example is two roll set of 2009 Birthplace Lincoln Cents, but the same may hold true for quarter and dollar coin offerings.

All 2009 District of Columbia offerings have now sold out, including the Two Roll Set and the 100-coin bags and 1000-coin bags of coins from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints. The 2009-P William Henry Harrison Rolls were briefly listed as "not available." Although they have returned, these rolls have sold at a faster pace than the last two Presidential Dollar releases.

The new found popularity of the bags and rolls offerings can be attributed to several reasons.

First, 2009 dated coins are proving extremely difficult to obtain through the normal channels for circulating coin distribution. In past years, with some effort, uncirculated rolls new circulating coins could be obtained from banks or financial institutions at face value. This year it has become much more difficult. For most denominations, it seems that banks are no longer able to order unmixed quantities of newly minted coins. Most 2009 coins seem to be turning up only sporadically or mixed with older coins. Many collectors who would have gotten their 2009 coins from banks, might be turning to the US Mint instead.

Second, several 2009 circulating coins have the lowest reported mintages in decades. As a result of the current economic environment, old coinage is reentering circulation and retail activity is diminishing. These two factors create less demand for new coins and lowered production from the Mint. The lower mintages are no doubt catching the attention of some collectors, hoping to put away rolls and bags of future key dates.

Third, the US Mint has far fewer product offerings this year. At the end of last year, the US Mint slashed their product offerings by 60%. They have also recently announced the delayed release of the 2009 Proof and Uncirculated Gold and Silver Eagle coins. In the absence of other options, collectors seem to be buying more bags, rolls, and commemoratives coins.

Finally, it seems like the US Mint is putting aside less coins for the bags and rolls sales. For example, the District of Columbia Two Rolls Sets are listed as sold out. Last week's sales statistics indicated that 27,505 of the sets were sold. This is far below the number of two roll sets sold for prior quarter releases. The US Mint sold around 70,000 Two Roll Sets of the Alaska and Hawaii Quarters before the products were removed. The US Mint might be doing this intentionally to try to avoid overstocking their inventory (remember the "Last Chance Sale"?), or this might be a consequence of the overall lower production.

Taken together, the factors have created a situation of increased demand and diminished supply. The US Mint's offerings sell out quickly and then secondary market prices begin to escalate.

The recently sold out 2009 Lincoln Birthplace Two Rolls Sets were briefly selling for over $100 on eBay. This compares to the $8.95 issue price, which many considered high in the first place. Prices have settled down, but they still seem to be holding above $70. View current eBay auctions here.

When the 2009-P William Henry Harrison Rolls were temporarily listed as "not available," eBay prices surged briefly above $100. The offering went back on sale at the US Mint on Friday at the original offering price of $35.50. (As a side note, the US Mint now seems to be using the notice "Sold Out" rather than "Product is not available," which should help to avoid mistaken sell outs.) Nonetheless, it was surprising how quickly prices spiked after there seemed to be a sell out.

Some other big winners might be yet to come. Today the 2009 Puerto Rico Quarter Bags and Rolls went on sale. Before the release of this latest quarter design, the US Mint apparently has already stopped production. The posted mintages are 53 million from Philadelphia and 86 million from Denver. As mentioned in 2009 coin production, this will be the lowest mintage in decades. If distribution through traditional channels continues to be sporadic, the US Mint's premium for the bags and rolls should be well worth it.

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MASTERS OF DECEIT - Part II:

MASTERS OF DECEIT - Part II

NOTE: This has turned out to be a seven part series, so I hope you will bear with me as I do believe this information to be important. See special headlines at bottom of this blog post.

John F. Kennedy was the last true President of the United States and until the treacherous globalists are removed from power we will NEVER have another real one. The one thing that we as American citizens should bear in mind is that the American presidency is really nothing more then a puppet post, so the idea that Barack Hussein Obama is some one who will come in and exercise real authority when he has obviously been chosen and given everything he has got by these money grabbers, is nothing more than a pipe dream. This would explain how another unknown, William Jefferson Clinton, who came from a single parent home, and never held a job, not even a part-time job, until elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, yet he never seemed to lack for money and was able to travel all over the world, including to Russian (where he protested against the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war), and to Italy and England.

Our Presidents today are nothing more than corporate pitchmen who take all of the political heat, while their controllers remain in the shadows safe from public scrutiny. If they controlled our presidents before, what makes you think they are not controlling it now? They give our political candidates the money, they give them voter fraud, they give them the media whores, they give them goons and they even have elected officials making threats of putting people in jail if they criticize Obama. All of this is the mark of a puppet, and Obama is a puppet, and perhaps more of a puppet then any one else, even more of a puppet then Hillary Clinton would have been and even more then John McCain would have been. Obama is the biggest puppet president since Jimmy Carter. Is it any wonder, also that the courts refuse to look into the issue about Obama’s citizenship and possible constitutional ineligibility to hold the Office of President? Could it be that the oligarchs know something that they don’t want the rest of us to know?

In the real executive power structure the president serves the military/industrial complex, itself owned by the international bankers. If there is a revolution, the people just throw out the president or the prime minister, while the elites stay in power and the public is NEVER really aware of who the real power is.

In Evian, France, in 1991, while standing before the Bilderberg Group, the very top of the World Government power structure, David Rockefeller defined the New World Order as the system of World Government serving the international banking elite. For decades, the banker owned media would attack anyone who dared to warn the public that a dictatorial government was being put together right under their noses, and that their national sovereignty was being deliberately destroyed. Now, after years of denial, the elite and the media are themselves proudly announcing that not only is world government real, but it is the answer to the financial crisis that they themselves created.

1) CNBC: Then you have Henry Kissinger who gave Barack Obama his first job out of college, told national television that the economic collapse was a great opportunity to bring in the New World Order. He even went on to say that Barack Obama was the perfect person to “sell it to the world, since his acceptance is so extraordinary around the world.”

2) Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group and The Shadow Masters: In June of 2006, a team of investigative reporters went to Ottawa, Canada to gather information on the elitist shadow government’s planned agenda for the coming years. Investigative journalist, Daniel Estulin, who had a couple of moles imbedded in the Bilderberg group, learned that the Bilderberg group first planned to run the price of oil up to $150.00 a barrel, something that was unimaginable in 2006, and that after suckering the middle class back into the stock market, they were going to implode the sub-prime mortgage market and destroy public confidence, by bringing the market back up to the 1992 levels and get all of “suckers” to invest all the money they have left over, then they would let the bottom drop out.

The Bilderberg group sits at the top of the world power structure. One hundred and twenty-five of the riches and most influential people on the face of the earth make up its membership. The Bilderberg group ALWAYS insists on a complete media blackout. By June of 2008, it already became apparent that Barack Obama was the elite’s puppet of choice. The national media claimed that on the weekend that the Bilderberger’s were scheduled to meet, that Obama had some speaking engagements set for Chicago and the mid-west, and in a classic ‘bait-and-switch’ the Obama campaign told the press corps to get on Obama’s campaign plane and that Obama would join them on the flight to Chicago. His campaign staff then slammed the plane’s door shut. The media whores had been Shanghaied as Obama’s campaign plane took off without Obama. When questioned about this by the press corps, a spokesman for Obama simply stated that “Senator Obama had a desire to do some meetings and others had a desire to meet with him in a private setting, so that is what we are doing.”

Obama wasn’t heading to Chicago; he had a secret meeting to attend. It was originally believed that the meeting was to be held at Hillary Clinton’s Washington, DC home; however, an Obama spokesman denied that but refused to say where the meeting was held or to reveal their topics of discussion. For a day and half, the msm was engaged in a wild goose chase, attempting to discover where Obama and Hillary had gone. Finally, the corporate press was forced to admit that they had no clue as to where they were, and to this day, neither Obama nor Hillary is talking about it. However, there were plenty of people who did know about the meeting. After investigating it was discovered that all clues pointed to the Westfields Marriot Hotel just outside Washington, DC, where the Bilderberg Group held there meeting in June 2008. It was later confirmed by informants that BOTH Obama and Hillary attended at least one of the meetings. Hundreds of brave protestors came from around America to voice their discussed with the elitists and their treasonous plans.

The global elite are desperate to keep their organizational meetings a secret and they are well aware that if the general public discovers that policy is being developed covertly by powerful special interests the people will revolt.

Under our federal law, it is a criminal act for federal officials to hold private meetings to discuss world policy with non-federal workers. Therefore every one from the State Department, Treasury and the White House are committing a criminal act just by attending the secret meetings with heads of other countries to discuss U.S. policy in the world. Literally it is a criminal act. Every newspaper, every broadcaster has a patriotic duty to expose these traitorous scumbags, but unfortunately, very few do as the majority is controlled by the traitors.

The primary election served as a diversion while the true future course of the nation was being set behind closed doors. You have the Bilderberg Group, which was founded by the Nazi sympathizer, Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, the Trilateral Commission, a private organization founded, in July 1973, at the behest of David Rockefeller who was Chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations, to foster closer cooperation between the United States, Europe and Japan.3.) Wikipedia on the Trilateral Commission: Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University and an advisor to David Rockefeller, and a specialist on foreign affairs, left his post to organize the Trilateral Commission. They were the ones who ran the Carter administration.

Barack Obama has been given a pass by the ‘bluebloods’, he has been given the okay by certain secret societies to let him in. Imperialism and fascism was in need of a face lift and they felt that the new face had to be black because they want to go into Africa and control all of the mineral wealth that will carry them into the 21^st, 22^nd, and possibly the 23^rd centuries. Therefore they have to galvanize the masses of dark skin people, who believe that ‘change’ is needed, but it isn’t going to be the change that will benefit the people. Nobody bothers to really examine Obama’s agenda, as long as he wears the right tie and has the right smile, and pushes the right message and drives it home, the average American is going to swallow it hook, line and sinker because they don’t have the slightest idea what the true agenda is.

In his 1964 book, With No Apologies, Senator Barry Goldwater wrote, “The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for the multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.” The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful and coordinated effort to seize control and power of the four centers of power; the political, the monetary, the intellectual and the ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a world wide economic power that would be superior to the political powers of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future. The Bilderberg issue executive decisions and prime directives to its top directors for implementation. The Trilateral Commission takes the Bilderberg agenda and executes it through regional roundtable groups throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Council on Foreign Relations acts as the managing roundtable group in the United States sector. The Council on Foreign Relations has dominated every administration since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The way in which they make policy and rule is that they are a poly centric, oligarchic system. This is not a society ruled by generals, not by priests, not by bureaucrats, not by demagogues, but strictly by bankers, and the bankers set up these institutions modeled on the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House and the Milner Roundtable from the period right after the Boor Wars and even before World War I. You have the British setting up these roundtables, putting out publications and holding conferences.

Barack Obama is conducting his own affirmative action program to get more Muslims into the White House. Click here: http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251

In another deceitful move, Obama stacked the deck in his "open" forum by picking ONLY campaign supporters to ask questions on his "online" internet forum. Click here: http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93194

PART III will be posted on Tuesday evening, March 31st.

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2009 Lincoln Cent Birthplace Two Roll Sets Sold Out

The 2009 Lincoln Cent Two-Roll Set for the "Birthplace" design has just sold out at the US Mint. The quick sell out attests to the continuing strong demand for the newly designed Lincoln Cent, and the lack of availability through regular channels.

The sets were priced relatively high at $8.95 plus shipping and handling for $1.00 face value worth of coins. They were also subject to a five per household limit. Despite these obstacles the coins sold out less than two weeks after the product release on March 13, 2009.

According to Numismaster, the roll sets had sold 97,149 so far, with a steady pace of about 50,000 per week. I am guessing that the final sales number might be an even 100,000.

It does not seem that any of the rolls have shipped yet. I placed an order during the first hour of sales and received an email notification last week with an expected shipping date of April 4, 2009. (Update: based on a comment, some appear to have been shipped)

The US Mint plans to offer similar roll sets for the other three 2009 Lincoln Cent designs. Release dates have not yet been posted, and only seasonal estimates of spring, summer, and winter have been posted. It's possible that for the remaining three roll sets, the US Mint could coordinate the product release with the circulation launch date for each design. (See 2009 Lincoln Cent Release Dates.) I suspect that the US Mint will also be more prepared for the strong Lincoln Cent demand, and may allocate more coins for the two roll set offerings.

A related product, the Five Coin Lincoln Proof Set has recently appeared on the US Mint's Scheduled Products Listing with a release date of "summer." This set will contain all four 2009 Proof Lincoln Cents in bronze composition (95% copper, 5% tin and zinc), along with the 2009 Proof Lincoln Commemorative.

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Braille Commemorative on Sale, Uncirculated Lincoln Sold Out

Today, the 2009 Louis Braille Commemorative Coin went on sale at the United States Mint. A ceremony to mark the launch was also held at the headquarters of the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore, Maryland.

Three separate ordering options are available: the proof coin, the uncirculated coin, and the uncirculated coin in a special easy open capsule to accommodate anyone wishing to read the Braille characters on the reverse of the coin.

The US Mint has placed an ordering limit of 50 units each per household. This compares to an ordering limit of 100 per option, which had been set for the Lincoln Commemorative. The total authorized maximum mintage for the Braille Commemorative is 400,000 coins across all product options.

The launch of the Braille Commemorative coin seems to be generating much more mainstream attention than the launch of the prior Lincoln Commemorative. Dave Harper mentions that the story was covered on CBS Radio and I saw a story online from CNN. I commented before about the lack of mainstream attention for the Lincoln Commemorative coin launch, which seemed to have been overshadowed by the launch of the newly designed cent on the same day. It will be interesting to see if this added exposure translates into higher sales for the Braille coin.

In my opinion, I don't think the Louis Braille Commemorative will achieve a sell out, although it is definitely one of the most unique commemorative coin offerings in recent memory.

Meanwhile, the uncirculated version of the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative coin has now officially sold out. The coin had been put on "waiting list status" on Tuesday. The proof version of the coin remains available for sale, but likely not for long.

Numismaster reported the latest sales figrues for the Lincoln Commemorative. Proof coin sales are 312,075 and uncirculated coin sales are 135,793. This puts the total across both options at 447,868. This leaves only 2,132 individual coins left available for sale.

Update: On Friday, the 2009 Lincoln Proof Commemorative moved into "waiting list status."

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