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Message:: [QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 1102280, member: 18157"]Here's an interesting tidbit that everyone else might know, but I certainly didn't. The First Spouse coins can only be minted during the year inscribed on the coin. I thought they could be minted to meet customer demand throughout the year they were on sale...not the case! For instance, the Mary Todd Lincoln coin has an announced maximum mintage of 20,000 across all product lines. The Mint creates as many coins as they predict will be sold. That number can be significantly less than the maximum mintage.  Coins that are released early in the year are less likely to encounter inventory problems since more can be made before the end of the year. However, late year coins like the Mary Todd Lincoln, are released in December and there's less than a month to make new coins should the initial estimate be off.  That was the case with the 2010 Buchanan Proofs. The Mint now reports that they only minted 13,000 total Buchanan First Spouse coins. Since the Proofs sold out at 7,317...that means there were only 5,683 Unc coins minted. There have been 4,461 Unc coins sold to date leaving a mere 1,222 Unc coins left to be sold. These numbers are approximate since they don't take into account any coins that might have been demaged and destroyed. If you planned on buying any Buchanan Unc's you better get while you can! ...the clock's a tick'n. There's no guarantee they minted the Max Lincoln coins, either! You can read all about it <a href="http://news.coinupdate.com/proof-buchanans-liberty-gold-coins-sold-out-0677/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.coinupdate.com/proof-buchanans-liberty-gold-coins-sold-out-0677/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]

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