| Difference Between British Coin sets and US Coin sets
I have noticed while surfing the Royal Mint's web site that they produce a fraction of the unc/proof sets than does the US mint. What's up with that? For example, they are only making 100,000 of the UNC Royal Shield of Arms collection, 20,000 of the proof set and 10,000 of the silver proof set. In fact, I could not find a set on their web site that had a mintage of greater than 100,000. Even the UNC Britannia had only a 100,000 max mintage. Can you imagine if only 100,000 US mint sets were made or only 20,000 US proof sets were made or only 10,000 silver proof sets were made??? How about only 100,000 UNC ASE's!!! It would be pandemonium. As a collector, of course, that is awesome to have a very limited number made, with such a high demand, but apparently this is not the case over in England. Maybe our British friends can chime in and explain. Thanks. Joe
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