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<p>[QUOTE="gronnh20, post: 2767014, member: 73224"]A FOIA(Freedom of Information Act) request had to be sent so mint officials would release mintage figures for ASE's from 2014-2017. Until the request had been sent the mint was not releasing bullion ASE coin mintage figures from each mint for those years. The Philadelphia, San Francisco, and West Point mints all made bullion ASE coins. The mint just wasn't letting out the mintage figures from each mint. Then the FOIA was filed and mintage figures were released. </p><p><br /></p><p>Upon receiving the information, it was discovered that the ASE coins minted at Philadelphia in 2015 were less than 80,000. Thus, this made the 2015-P bullion ASE coins a low mintage key date. The only way to find out if you had 2015-P ASE coins was the info on the 500 coin monster box from the mint. Well guess what? Those buying monster boxes had a lot of the coins slabbed in generic no mint marked plastic. Those that still have/had 2015-P in sealed monster boxes were the winners. Out of the 80,000 minted in Philadelphia there are scarce few that were slabbed as being produced in Philly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gronnh20, post: 2767014, member: 73224"]A FOIA(Freedom of Information Act) request had to be sent so mint officials would release mintage figures for ASE's from 2014-2017. Until the request had been sent the mint was not releasing bullion ASE coin mintage figures from each mint for those years. The Philadelphia, San Francisco, and West Point mints all made bullion ASE coins. The mint just wasn't letting out the mintage figures from each mint. Then the FOIA was filed and mintage figures were released. Upon receiving the information, it was discovered that the ASE coins minted at Philadelphia in 2015 were less than 80,000. Thus, this made the 2015-P bullion ASE coins a low mintage key date. The only way to find out if you had 2015-P ASE coins was the info on the 500 coin monster box from the mint. Well guess what? Those buying monster boxes had a lot of the coins slabbed in generic no mint marked plastic. Those that still have/had 2015-P in sealed monster boxes were the winners. Out of the 80,000 minted in Philadelphia there are scarce few that were slabbed as being produced in Philly.[/QUOTE]
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