2020 United States Mint Proof Set available February 27

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New This Year: Premium 2020 Jefferson nickel from the West Point Mint

Washington — The 2020 United States Mint Proof Set (product code 20RG) will be available for purchase starting on February 27 at noon EST. The set is priced at $32.00 and includes the following 10 coins from the United States Mint at San Francisco:

  • Five America the Beautiful Quarters Program coins with reverse (tails) designs honoring the National Park of American Samoa (American Samoa), Weir Farm National Historic Site (Connecticut), Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve (United States Virgin Islands), Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (Vermont), and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (Kansas).
  • One Native American $1 coin with a reverse design featuring a portrait of Elizabeth Peratrovich, whose advocacy was considered a deciding factor in the passage of the 1945 Anti-Discrimination Law in the Alaska State Legislature. The foreground features a symbol of the Tlingit Raven moiety, of which she was a member. Inscriptions include UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ELIZABETH PERATROVICH, $1, and ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW OF 1945. The obverse design (heads) retains the central figure Sacagawea carrying her infant son, Jean Baptiste. The inscriptions are LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST.
  • One Kennedy half dollar
  • One Roosevelt dime
  • One Jefferson nickel, and
  • One Lincoln penny.

The coins are sealed in two lenses and packaged in a decorative carton emblazoned with an image of the Washington Monument at sunrise on the front. The back of the carton displays images of each national site honored in 2020 with interesting facts. A certificate of authenticity comes with each set.

This year, the Mint is including a Proof finish 2020 Jefferson nickel from the West Point Mint with each United States Mint Proof Set. This special coin is packaged separately in clear United States Mint plastic wrap and inserted into an envelope.

The United States Mint Proof Set is the first of three annual sets to include a premium nickel with a “W” mint mark in 2020. The United States Mint Silver Proof Set will include an additional premium nickel in a Reverse Proof finish, and the United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set will include an additional premium nickel in an Uncirculated finish.

Orders will be accepted online and at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may order by calling 1-888-321-MINT (6468). Information on shipping options is available at the Mint’s website.

The United States Mint Proof Set can also be purchased through the Product Enrollment Program. Visit the Mint’s website to learn more about this convenient ordering method.

Like many United States Mint products, this set will be available at the Mint’s sales centers in Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; and Denver. Availability may be limited and subject to change.

About the United States Mint

Congress created the United States Mint in 1792, and the Mint became part of the Department of the Treasury in 1873. As the Nation’s sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage, the Mint is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint also produces numismatic products, including Proof, Uncirculated, and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; silver and bronze medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. Its numismatic programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to taxpayers.

Note: To ensure that all members of the public have fair and equal access to United States Mint products, the United States Mint will not accept and will not honor orders placed prior to the official on-sale date and time of February 27, 2020, at noon EST.

Press release courtesy of the United States Mint.

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Comments

  1. Tom says

    Pricey for what you get but I buy them for gifts.
    Off topic- according to the latest market report. The Sky Is Falling.

  2. CaliSkier says

    Very pricey, like the rest of the Mints baubles. I’m having a really hard time envisioning any purchases form the US Mint in the future. Less and less customers means higher prices, lower prices with more gimmicks. The primary obstacle IMO is less and less customers willing to and or able to, spend what disposable income they may have on expensive US Mint products?

    Gee, only $32.00 for shiny, frosted coins $2.96 and nominal packaging costs. Such a deal! NOT

    Graders paradise with the W nickel included in this set! 1st ever, 1st day, first 1-100 Monticello label, 1st etc, etc, etc. Seemingly the Mints sales are in a death spiral? How long can they continue to flail??? Reaching for answers on how to stop the bleeding?

  3. IJTR says

    I am waiting for the melt value of clad to start moving up.
    Hey, my First Spouses might turn into an investment the way things are going with melt!

  4. Barry says

    Mexico, the world’s leading silver producer, has been a net importer of oil for over a year now and with no end in sight to the declining production. PEMEX has such heavy debt that it is not possible to pay back. A possible credit downgrade this year would force institutions to sell the bonds and cause a crisis. From what I read they are teetering and had a few large US banks cobble together a few billion to shore them up. My point being is that they could hoard their silver to prop up their currency. It’s “game on ” if that happens but, it is just some speculating on my part. Go and research online and you’ll see the situation Mexico and PEMEX are in.

  5. Sith says

    @Barry

    I read articles years ago were Mexico could stabilize their currency with silver or they could actually start to circulate sliver coins, so the populace could protect themselves from the currency debasement , and\or inflation, by hording them, but that would involve caring, Countries will back themselves up with magical money (cryptocurrencies), before they go back to the quaint notion of hard money

  6. cagcrisp says

    @Sith says,” Countries will back themselves up with magical money (cryptocurrencies), before they go back to the quaint notion of hard money”

    Agree 100%…

  7. cagcrisp says

    Bond market in a Bubble
    Stock market in a Bubble
    Gold/Silver in a Bubble
    USD too Strong…

    Those that having been keeping score…

    Currently the 30 year United States Treasury bond is hitting All Time Low yields
    Currently the 10 year United States Treasury note is hitting All Tim Low yields

  8. HarryB says

    Sith: how does the average citizen of Mexico use crypto currencies? For that matter, what percent of the US population could use crypto currency? Last stat I saw 3% of the US households are un banked. For that matter my observation is that only 90% of the US population can read at a 8th grade level….all impediments to crypto currency

  9. cagcrisp says

    The following were results of a survey taken in 2019 that was answered by 66 Central Banks that represent 75% of the world’s population and 90% of the world’s economic output…

    “Ever more central banks are currently (or will soon be) engaged in Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) work. Some 80% of central banks (up from 70% in survey from 2018) are engaging in some sort of work, with half looking at both wholesale and general purpose CBDCs. Some 40% of central banks have progressed from conceptual research to experiments, or proofs-of-concept; and another 10% have developed pilot projects.”

  10. cagcrisp says

    This is a quote from a WSJ article about CBDCs:

    “And what if another country launches a globally useful digital currency first? A survey by the Bank for International Settlements indicates that 30% of central banks say they are likely to launch a digital currency in the next six years and 10% have pilots in place. Currencies compete: Anything that makes another currency more attractive to use could cause people to shift transactions and even holdings away from U.S. dollars, undermining the U.S.’s ability to use economic sanctions as a foreign-policy tool.”

    The United States really has no alternative (that I see) but to address a United States digital currency…

  11. William says

    I am done trying to understand this market. Yesterday gold/silver were havens and palladium was battered. Today it’s the opposite. It’s making my head hurt.

  12. Sith says

    @HarryB – Don’t bother me with facts, 🙂 But for the record I said back themselves up with cryptocurrency. People did not walk around with $1 (although at the time they could have also done that) in silver they walked around with a silver certificate. Same is true with gold, and gold certificates. You could back printing digital certificates tied to a cryptocurrency, and for the physical cryptocurrency you could use physical bitcoins (yes they exist, Each coin has a unique Bitcoin address and a redeemable “private key” under a hologram on the coin. ) or a cryptowallet (think thumb\flash drive, RSA token, POS combination). As a reminder cigarettes served as currency in Germany after WW II

  13. cagcrisp says

    @ cagcrisp, says,”Bond market in a Bubble
    Stock market in a Bubble
    Gold/Silver in a Bubble
    USD too Strong…“

    3 out of 4 let some air out Today…

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