U.S. Mint’s Best of the Mint Mercury Dime Set Launches

The U.S. Mint launches its first 250th-anniversary “Best of the Mint” set today, a 1/10-oz 24k gold Mercury dime plus a silver medal, priced at $810 and capped at 30,000 sets with a one-per-household limit for the first 24 hours. The Mint is clearly positioning the issue as a premium collectible, and the limited mintage suggests an early sellout is plausible given the agency’s prior Mercury dime release history.