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<p>[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 2201658, member: 20480"]The government, and the US Mint in particular, have it completely backward . . . right now, acceptance of their product is purely Marketing-driven, as opposed to market-driven. Demand is purely speculative because they know they are turning out inferior product, and are using contrived rarity as the basis for establishing a value. This is to the US Mint what beanie babies were to the Postal Service. Right now, they have lots of golden eggs, but seemingly all of their geese have died off. Maybe they have one left, and a sickly one at that . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>I say, drive mintage by consumer demand for the design, and not for prospective profit. By that I mean don't pre-set limits on quantity. Let the market's desire for a particular issue determine the eventual mintage, rather than the limited mintage determining what the market demand will be.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would moderate the volatility of future issues, and encourage the Mint to turn out more beautiful products instead of the cartoonish dust-collectors we've been seeing for some 20 or so years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 2201658, member: 20480"]The government, and the US Mint in particular, have it completely backward . . . right now, acceptance of their product is purely Marketing-driven, as opposed to market-driven. Demand is purely speculative because they know they are turning out inferior product, and are using contrived rarity as the basis for establishing a value. This is to the US Mint what beanie babies were to the Postal Service. Right now, they have lots of golden eggs, but seemingly all of their geese have died off. Maybe they have one left, and a sickly one at that . . . I say, drive mintage by consumer demand for the design, and not for prospective profit. By that I mean don't pre-set limits on quantity. Let the market's desire for a particular issue determine the eventual mintage, rather than the limited mintage determining what the market demand will be. That would moderate the volatility of future issues, and encourage the Mint to turn out more beautiful products instead of the cartoonish dust-collectors we've been seeing for some 20 or so years.[/QUOTE]
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