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Message:: [QUOTE="Bacchus, post: 57172, member: 759"]That was a good explanation.  The part that didn't occur to me was that the sales figures might reflect sales of coins that were minted in earlier years.  That is, 6000 coins sold in July 2003 might consist of 4000 2003s, 1500 2002s, and 500 2001s. That's what I get for not reading everything on the Mint's page, I guess. Which means the monthly sales figures are of very dubious value to any of us trying to guess what the final mintage will be for the year.  We'll have to wait for the mintage figures like the page you sited. In the case of UNC bullion, that's really no big deal.  The coins are still available six months into the following year when the mintage numbers are finalized. We originally got into this on another thread where I was complaining that by the time we knew what sales were of something like Mint Proof Sets, it was too late to buy them from the Mint.  Maybe that's not true; it appears there's a lot more data tucked away on the Mint's site than I realized.[/QUOTE]