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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 873907, member: 19065&quot;]I think I may be complicating my answers with my long replies but I totally agree with you about the two markets for AGEs and AGBs, even though I see AGBs (bullion) seem to have a growing interest amongst bullion investors in general. I&#039;m not sure investors &#039;buy&#039; the &quot;premium&quot; argument at all and the Mint is likely deluding themselves with any further marketing efforts. </p><p><br /></p><p>The US Mint attempted a marketing ploy in 2008 to sell the 24k AGBs to the &#039;Asian&#039; sensibility through packaging of a number of AGB coins in 2008. The <a href="http://goldbuffaloguide.com/8-8-08-double-prosperity-set/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldbuffaloguide.com/8-8-08-double-prosperity-set/" rel="nofollow">2008 double prosperity 8/8/08</a> for collectors (unc-W coins) and the <a href="http://goldbuffaloguide.com/american-buffalo-2008-celebration-coin/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldbuffaloguide.com/american-buffalo-2008-celebration-coin/" rel="nofollow">2008 celebration AGB </a>bullion coin (no W mintmark), sold through the Mint&#039;s numismatic catalog. 2008 AGB unc W coins turned out to be a hit being the only year with fractionals and low mintages, but future mintages and no existence of mintage limits on AGBs seems not to be a future factor that will affect their performance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said earlier, my own personal guess, is that physical gold will not experience the same demand as last year no matter the type of gold and that informs my opinion about how sales (mintage) of AGBs in 2010 will end up next year when they publish that data. Truth be told, I feel it&#039;s silver that will experience continued demand like that of 2009 as more individuals continue building their positions and those who find silver to be in their price range can stay on or join in making acquisitions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also felt it important and was attempting to untangle some of the issues and biases I feel are&nbsp; implied in Elaine&#039;s personal predictions regarding these coins that&nbsp; don&#039;t come through in her ambiguous postings that lack explicit&nbsp; reasoning. I find her predictions lack a certain quality in their rushed manner she has to be the first here to post recent data. Perhaps she would be more accurate and&nbsp; thorough in reviewing the nature of the thread and questions&nbsp; posed/debated rather than skipping from thread to thread to update with information&nbsp; previously published elsewhere on the web.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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