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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 647831, member: 66&quot;]So what would you have the mint do?&nbsp; Restrict the number of sets that people can order like they did in 1999 with the proof sets or with the UHR?&nbsp; No more than one or two per household?&nbsp; I seem to recall there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth both times they did that and everyone was complaining about the mint doing so.&nbsp; And of course in both cases eventually the mint removed the limit, but in order to protect future prices I would suppose you would insist the limts stay on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or they could just set an arbitrarily low mintage and leave the number to be ordered open.&nbsp; Make for a quick sell out and guarantee a high secondary market price.&nbsp; Of course almost everyone will be shut out from ordering from the mint and have to pay that high price, but if that&#039;s what you want. . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe combine the two?&nbsp; Low mintage and order restrictions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone see any of these suggestions making everyone happy and not causing a low of complaints?</p><p><br /></p><p>The MINT does not and can not flood the market.&nbsp; They don&#039;t set the mintages, they are set by the number that people order. (Except for the Bicentennial proof set where Congress ordered that they had to MAKE 15 million sets, not limit the mintage they HAD to make that many.)&nbsp; The reason the market gets flooded and the prices fall is because so many buyer figure they will order five, and sell four so their set is free.&nbsp; That puts way more sets on the market than the long term collector base can support.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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