I'm very puzzled by the present mint stats for the Lincoln 2-rol set now 96,000), and the Unc Licoln Comm $1 (now at 125,000).

While you did note the Lincoln 2-roll set was "adjusted" from the previous value of 97,149, there was no reason given.  How can the Mint simply reduce this number after reporting larger numbers without some explanation?

Likewise, the Unc Lincoln $1 Comm had mint stats above 126,000 for 3 prior reporting periods, and "magically" it now changes to 125,000 (I assume the 125,0000 above was a typo)?  How can this be?  

Simply changing numbers without a reason challenges the credibility of these figures...

The way it works is that the Mint took more orders for those options than they could fulfill, having spares to stand by in the event earlier orders didn't work out for whatever reason.  The earlier sales figures reported were correct for that time, but there were a large number of orders on backorder status.  Now, however, the Mint has adjusted those numbers down to the number of orders they intend to fulfill, and cancelled those that exceeded the number of coins produced for each individual option.  What it boils down to now is, there will be only 125,000 Uncirculated Lincoln Dollars produced, and there will be 375,000 Proof Lincoln Dollars produced.  The remaining 50,000 Proofs will be included in the special set with the pennies later this year (which WILL "sell like hotcakes", by the way).  I plan to order mine EARLY!

Thank you for the explanation - it really helps!