I have heard early specimens of this coin have sold for $1000+. Is that true and why? Are they scarce mintage wise? The price I heard was from a Panda America flyer.
Which one's? Gold? Silver? Got a link to that flyer? For one general bit of info, while most early years mintages appear quite low, they didn't keep very good records of early Panda mintages. You might like these sites for further reading: ChinesePandaCoin.blogspot.com/ PandaCollector.com
It was in a flyer for silver Pandas I picked up from Boston and yes krispy it was the silver ones. Crazy amounts for modern silver! But good job to whoever bought them cheap!
here are some of the apmex ms-70 chinese panda silver one ounce prices: 2000 - $795.00 2003 - $799.99 2007 - $895.00