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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1034859, member: 19065"]Dave, the 2010 Proof ASE are not "sold out" as they haven't even been put on sale yet. They have only reserved by the Mint for the subscribers, who are yet to even be charged for these pre-orders.</p><p><br /></p><p>And so you will need to be patient and wait for the Mint to publish their sales reports, AFTER the coins are actually on sale for at least a week or two, which you can then use to estimate the mintage of the Proof 2010 ASE while it is still on sale. However, these sales reports only function as an approximate figure for the mintage, which will be the case for some months, maybe even a year or more before it can be called 'final'. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for me, I don't play the mintage game and could care less about those statistics. I advise others to fore go playing that game too, especially with modern issued collector coins that have no clearly stated mintage limit in the coins legislation. The mintage is not why I collect collector version coins and it's not a factor in admiring the beauty of these coins... and these coins, while they may turn out to be lucrative because others want them enough to pay over retail soon after their release or that others feel the mintage is limited and thus the coins somehow may be scarce, doesn't really amount to much objective reasoning, remaining a risky investment. Again, not reasons I'd suggest buying these coins. Buy them to admire them and collect what you like, these will be hot products this year, but far from <i>limited</i> in mintage terms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1034859, member: 19065"]Dave, the 2010 Proof ASE are not "sold out" as they haven't even been put on sale yet. They have only reserved by the Mint for the subscribers, who are yet to even be charged for these pre-orders. And so you will need to be patient and wait for the Mint to publish their sales reports, AFTER the coins are actually on sale for at least a week or two, which you can then use to estimate the mintage of the Proof 2010 ASE while it is still on sale. However, these sales reports only function as an approximate figure for the mintage, which will be the case for some months, maybe even a year or more before it can be called 'final'. As for me, I don't play the mintage game and could care less about those statistics. I advise others to fore go playing that game too, especially with modern issued collector coins that have no clearly stated mintage limit in the coins legislation. The mintage is not why I collect collector version coins and it's not a factor in admiring the beauty of these coins... and these coins, while they may turn out to be lucrative because others want them enough to pay over retail soon after their release or that others feel the mintage is limited and thus the coins somehow may be scarce, doesn't really amount to much objective reasoning, remaining a risky investment. Again, not reasons I'd suggest buying these coins. Buy them to admire them and collect what you like, these will be hot products this year, but far from [I]limited[/I] in mintage terms.[/QUOTE]
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