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<p>[QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2415575, member: 78153"]What is your definition of "low mintage". To give you one example, my favorite is the 1911-2011 dual dated centennial anniversary set for the 1911 SP dollar. The mintage is 6000 and the market price for the five coins seems to be somewhat over $200 USD now.</p><p><br /></p><p>To my knowledge, it sold out when issued but I have no idea if the real collector base (as opposed to flippers) is really 6000 or anywhere near it. Adjusting for my guess of the size of the Canada collector base, I'd say its probably the equivalent of a US set with 60,000 to 120.000. So no, not really that low.</p><p><br /></p><p>For most of the recent RCM NCLT I have seen, considering the huge volume of this stuff coming out each and every year with most of it having potentially little to zero numismatic appeal to most collectors, I'd say that even if the mintage is quite a bit less than 6000, it isn't really low either. Years from now, I expect the overwhelming percentage of this stuff to be mostly forgotten.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2415575, member: 78153"]What is your definition of "low mintage". To give you one example, my favorite is the 1911-2011 dual dated centennial anniversary set for the 1911 SP dollar. The mintage is 6000 and the market price for the five coins seems to be somewhat over $200 USD now. To my knowledge, it sold out when issued but I have no idea if the real collector base (as opposed to flippers) is really 6000 or anywhere near it. Adjusting for my guess of the size of the Canada collector base, I'd say its probably the equivalent of a US set with 60,000 to 120.000. So no, not really that low. For most of the recent RCM NCLT I have seen, considering the huge volume of this stuff coming out each and every year with most of it having potentially little to zero numismatic appeal to most collectors, I'd say that even if the mintage is quite a bit less than 6000, it isn't really low either. Years from now, I expect the overwhelming percentage of this stuff to be mostly forgotten.[/QUOTE]
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