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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedie, post: 1290475, member: 28064&quot;]I don&#039;t get it either. The ire, if any, should be directed at the Mint for a) making so few sets and b) setting the household limit to 5. I don&#039;t personally understand either decision.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding (a) the average annual mintage of Proof ASEs has been running at 750K+ since the year 2000. It doesn&#039;t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that the demand for the 25th anniversary set would run pretty close to that number. If their reasoning was a shortgage of blanks (I&#039;m guessing) then maybe they should have directed the available blanks to these sets rather than the 2011 W Burnished coin. There hadn&#039;t been any Burnished coins produced since 2008 anyway, and I&#039;m sure most ASE collectors, of which I am one, would have rather seen the sets be more widely available. I haven&#039;t read of any shortage of blanks though, so the true reasoning behind the limited mintage is hard to fathom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding (b) with demand likely to outstrip supply by 7:1 or 8:1, why the heck set the limit at 5 per household? The limit for the &quot;P&quot; mintmark ATB 5oz coins was 1 per household, and that series has absolutely nowhere near the collector base of ASEs. Perhaps they just didn&#039;t want to deal with fulfilling 100K separate orders?</p><p><br /></p><p>With that said, the facts are that only 100K sets were available and the limit was 5 per household. A simple understanding of market forces, good old supply and demand, dicates that even if the ratio is only 4:1 demand:supply then money would be made by someone, somewhere in the supply chain. Had the Mint priced the sets at $500 right out of the gate, there would have been howls of protest. Had they set the limit at 1 per household, it wouldn&#039;t make one iota of difference to the demand:supply ratio, and secondary market prices would have ultimately hit the same level. The sellout would have taken longer is all. Yes, more sets might have ended up in &quot;strong hands&quot; initially that way, but if 400K collectors want 100K sets then there will be 300K disappointed collectors regardless of how you slice and dice it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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