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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1278507, member: 18157&quot;]Thanks for keeping up with the totals! :hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>I just got back last night and trying to catch up. I can&#039;t believe the Mint suspended sales for &quot;repricing&quot;, but put them back on sale at the same price :rolling:...what are they doing? Silver dropped 25%...I thought <b>FOR SURE </b>prices would drop to $59.95 and $62.95, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting event was the inversion of 2010/2011 sales last week...meaning, more 2010 sets (351) sold than 2011 sets (182). I suspect that&#039;s likely due to the MintNewsBlog article. It&#039;ll be interesting to see if this trend continues this coming week.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint &quot;says&quot; they shifted the release of annual sets so collectors can buy them throughout the year inscribed on the coins. I think the &quot;real&quot; reason they did this was for inventory control. Since the coins can&#039;t (by law) be minted outside the calendar year inscribed on the coin, the Mint had to estimate (and produce) the number of sets they &quot;think&quot; will be sold (through August) before the end of December. Now that they&#039;ve shifted to a January to January schedule, only one (1) month&#039;s sales needs to be estimated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2011 sets went on sale at the end of January so I expect they will go off sale at the end of January...when the 2012 sets go on sale. If we accept and &quot;end of January&quot; off-sale estimate for the 2011 sets, we should probably add four (4) weeks when projecting needed weekly sales for the 1995/2011 comparison...</p><p><br /></p><p>2010 Silver Proof Set: (679,984 – 573,620) / 12 = 8,864</p><p>&nbsp;<b>2011 Silver Proof Set: (679,984 – 461,766) / 16 = 13,639</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If the Mint goes back to ending each year&#039;s sales when the next year&#039;s sales begins...the 2011 sets will be extremely low!! The poor economy, high prices, Christmas coming, and all the other Mint products available could keep 2011 sales below 500,000!! <b>Just imagine...2011 final sales of something like 485,000!!&nbsp; </b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ...and it will take sales of 1500 sets/wk (through January) just to get to that number.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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