I'm looking for a source that lists the mintages of all the AGEs. I know that the 2008 figures shouldn't be available yet...but I assume somewhere lists the mintages from 1986-2007. I have the 2007 redbook but it looks like the mintages in there are only complete up to 2003 with the unc coins up to 2005. I looked at coinfacts.com and they don't seem to any mintage figures. Anyway, if someone knows a source, please let me know. Thanks!!!
OK, that works. For the proofs, the website is listing 3 different figures (mintage limit, product limit, and total unit sales). Which is the number of "coins out there." I guess I should just outright ask what I'm trying to figure out. I remember a while back that someone mentioned an AGE, I believe either an 1/10 or 1/4 ounce that was produced in unusually low numbers that might end up being a somewhat key of the series. I don't have any AGE's, but I would like to get one. It looks like the prices for them are pretty standard across the board (being that the collector value generally doesn't keep them much above spot price), so I would like to pick up a low minted example. Does anyone know what the lowest minted (or lowest couple minted) AGEs are? For example, according to RedBook, the 1998-W 1/10 proof had a mintage of 20,000 which is the lowest I have seen. Is this the lowest or have I missed one (the mint website lists those 3 figures for this coin as 45,000; 20,000; and 19,827 respectively).
Richie you just don't understand the terms. Mintage limit means that is the maximum number of coins that they would have produced that year no matter what. Product limit is the maximum number of individual 1/10 oz coins they would have sold for that year. Total unit sales is the actual mumber of coins they sold for that particular product. To arrive at the mintage for the 1/10 oz coin for 1998 you add the numbers for the individual product 19,827 - and the year set 19,568 and you get the answer - mintage = 39,395 1/10 oz gold coins in 1998.
OK, so I misread the table...I didn't see the four coin set on it, so that makes sense. So, with the same thing in mind...if I wanted to know the total for 1oz gold proofs from 1998, I would need to add the set total 19,568 (same as with the 1/10) with the single coin total 6,318. Therefore, they produced 25,886 total 1oz gold proofs. Do I have this correct? But, the mintage limit for 1998 1oz proofs was 25,000. Does that mean did in fact produce 886 more 1oz gold proofs than they said they would?
But what about the 1998 1oz having a greater mintage than 25,000? Is that just because they were able to sell more than 25,000 or what? If thats the case, it seems like the mintage limit is kind of a pointless number if they don't abide by it (not that I'm complaining, it just seems to add confusion).
It is a pointless number. All it signifies is what they think the maximum requests for that coin will be in any given year.
You want to try a low mintage, try the 2008 W unc half oz coin. According to the 7/1/08 Numismatic News so far only 1,572 coins have been ordered. Only 1,722 1/4 oz pieces have been ordered. Those figures include the 1,063 four coin sets that have been ordered. Of course orders are still being taken for those coins so those figures can still change as the year progresses.
note if gold maintain $850.00 to $900.00 within nine months. then the 2008 w am eagle gold unc will be low in mintages. the current pricing is based on $950.00 per ounce. but if the gold reaches over $1,000.00 per ounce. then mintages will pick up big. it might become another bullion gold coin. the 2006 w unc. is the first year issue. even the 2006 mintage is higher than the rest. it will still carried a high premium on it.
