The U.S. Mint set, which includes a Native American dollar and a Kennedy
The 2019 Rocketship U.S. Mint sets go on sale today. (Scroll below to see detailed submission instructions.)
The set includes a 2019-S Proof Native American $1 coin featuring Mary Golda Ross, a Native American engineer, and an astronaut representing Native American space pioneers like John Herrington. It also features an Uncirculated 2019-D half dollar, which shows President John F. Kennedy, the man who pushed the U.S. forward during the Space Race of the 1960s and whose name is now enshrined as part of NASA’s main launching facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The U.S. Mint has limited the sets to 50,000
NGC is celebrating this historic set with a ”Rocketship Set”pedigree, which will be listed separately in the NGC Census. There is an additional $5 fee per coin for this designation.
Coins received by NGC within the first 30 days of their release are eligible for NGC’s popular Early Releases and First Releases designations. Learn more about Early Releases and First Releaseshere. For Early Releases / First Releases cutoff dates, click here.
Submission Instructions:
- The 2019 Rocketship Mint Set must be received in the sealed U.S. Mint shipping box to receive the Rocketship Set pedigree.
- There is an additional $5 fee for the special set pedigree.
- All coins received in a sealed Mint shipping box must be graded.
- Submit these coins under the Modern grading tier or higher.
- The default label is NGC’s Standard Brown Label #377.
- If the Early Releases or First Releases designation is desired (+$10), select Early Releases or First Releases on your submission form. Early Releases Label #378 or Blue First Releases Label #379 will accompany the designations by default.
- To qualify for Early Releases or First Releases, coins must be received by NGC or an NGC-approved Depository before the Early Releases / First Releases cutoff date.
- If you would like Mint packaging returned, select “Return Mint Packaging” in section 3 of the NGC Submission Form. The fee is $5 plus the cost of shipping.
Questions? Contact NGC Customer Service at or 1-800-NGC-COIN (1-800-642-2646).
NGC’s First Day of Issue designation is available for qualifying bulk submissions only. Contact Scott Heller at 941-360-3990 or or Miles Standish at or 949-922-0515 for bulk submissions.
In addition, select bulk submissions at the Whitman Expo in Baltimore (February 28 to March 3) are eligible for a “Whitman Expo Releases” designation, for an additional $15 fee. (The submissions must be accompanied by the original U.S. Mint purchase receipt (showing that they were purchased at the U.S. Mint booth at the Whitman Expo). Collectors Society paid members can submit their coins directly to NGC. Not an NGC Collectors Society member? Paid memberships start at just $25/year. Join today.
Press release courtesy of the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
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I understand the rocketship dollar is pop out of Sanfransico. Is that right?
Are you kidding me?? What kid wants to have his set “robbed” by a greedy adult hoping for a big profit? ngc has no shame…they are the IDENTICAL coin available in other sets!
Update on NGC graded rocketship collectors set… the Coin Vault is offering this set of 2 coins, but get this: NGC says the Kennedy has a “proof-like” finish! The display coin they showed close-up appeared to have lots of blemishes with NO PL seen…Coin Vault felt so bad gutting the coins from the folder, so they were throwing in another complete set! All this for only $149!
Saw coin vault promo of new ngc grafef rocketship coin’s:. 2019 S Native Am. dollar + 2019 Kennedy half…they have. the dollar as PR70UCAM & the Kennedy as MS68PL…all for only $199.The mint hasn’t made any claims as to the Kennedy being unique in any way, but apparently NGC has concocted this PL designation on their own…you have to wonder if the mint and NGC had some discussions ahead of the coins release…It may prove to be true that this coin has some unique finish, .I’m no coin expert, nor have I seen the coin close up, but you wonder if NGC can convince the collecting public that if there is a difference, it’t worth nearly $200 to obtain…
If you go to Coin Vault website, they show close-ups of both sides of the Kennedy…it appears to have a somewhat reflective surface, but again, the mint is only saying it is a “2019D Kennedy half” hmmm….
Foxman69 Coin vault offered a rocket set the kids could handle and graded coins for later when they are older. Have you got kids I have grand kids. They love to be hands on. They also are learning how to handle stuff. Coin vault did not sound like you have made them out. They sounded like they have kids. You sound like a little more time understanding kids and leave conspiracy theories to the political world
James…I have grandchildren, and a grandson in particular who I have shared coins with…I don’t object to the mint set of coins…in fact, I may get a set or two for him…what I find so offensive is NGC capitalizing on the two otherwise common coins…the Kennedy half is nothing more than an uncirculated coin…anyone is welcome (perhaps yourself), to purchase a set (graded) at an an incredible markup on these coins…do you really think they will hold their value , much less appreciate, as Johnny grows up?
Fox. Yes they will more than hold there value. Now for the hard part. According to your logic it’s just a half dollar and therefore not special. Well what you’re saying is…example is a silver eagle is just a silver eagle, but it’s the designation that you respect limited edition set. First day of issue. Congratulations set What makes them valuable … the limited amount of each edition. Sorry but you’re being a little hypocritical
Ok, James, we’re going off the rails here..different issues in play here…as to the proof dollar in rocketship set…take it out of the fancy label and you have a proof dollar just like the others…pay extra if you believe it’s somehow “special”. as to the Kennedy half, the Mint simply describes it as an uncirculated “D” half…but the grading service is describing it as “proof like”. Will all the Kennedy’s from the set get that designation? If you submit the same coin from an uncirculated us mint set, will it receive proof like as well? Remains to be seen. I have some special label ASE’ S such as signed, firstday, early release, etc. don’t mean to be a hypocrite…know one knows what the will be worth in the future…take care…