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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 970289, member: 66&quot;]Bullion YES (to the distributors) Commemoratives No.&nbsp; And the reason bullion retail dealers are selling the commems for close to bullion is because they have purchased them over the counter at close to bullion as well&nbsp; Because that is all a lot of them are worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even if the mint sells all the coins they have MINTED that does not mean a &quot;sell out&quot; unless they have minted as many as were authorized.&nbsp; For many issues that is not the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for 350,000 being a decline, they used to authorize 2 million coins and they couldn&#039;t sell out&nbsp; The authorizd mintages have been dropping and dropping 1.5 million, 1 million, 750,000, 500,000 and a fair number of those issues didn&#039;t sell out&nbsp; Now we are down to 350,000 for both unc and proof combined and it still took over 4 months to sell out (Over 200,000 in four days then four months to sell the next 100,000 and that for a program that was supposed to have a high demand)&nbsp; Yes I would call that a decline.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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