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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1329950, member: 18157&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if these sets will be a &quot;Flipper&#039;s Delight&quot; immediately. The 2011 sets still have lower sales numbers (at the moment) and the 2012 sets haven&#039;t gone on sale, yet. There&#039;s probably a lot of people out there that think this is the &quot;New Normal&quot; and sales will continue to decline. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the opposite. I think this was a unique event caused by a poor economy, dropping silver prices and an overlapping of products due to the shift in US Mint sales schedule. This &quot;Perfect Storm&quot; of events has caused ultra low sales figures that we won&#039;t see again for another 20 twenty years (if at all...imho).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another factor that might depress prices in the short term is &quot;Distribution&quot;. There hasn&#039;t been any &quot;Per Household&quot; restrictions so there are likely large numbers of sets concentrated in fewer hands. Poor distributions &quot;seems&quot; to lead to lower prices...when demand goes up, folks with extra sets meet the demand. It&#039;s only later, once the sets become distributed, that prices increase.</p><p><br /></p><p>I originally predicted a final sales number for the 2010 Silver Proof set of about 585,000. We&#039;ll likely finish just south of that number. <b></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Weekly sales figures for the 2010 Silver Proof sets since the beginning of November 2011...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>01 Nov: 468</p><p>08 Nov: 810</p><p>15 Nov: 438</p><p>22 Nov: 674</p><p>29 Nov: 625</p><p>06 Dec: 791</p><p>13 Dec: 930</p><p>20 Dec: 1071</p><p><br /></p><p>Sales have increased about 150/week since the beginning of December. Given the Christmas season (folks spending $$ on other things), low silver prices, and 2011 sets with even lower sales numbers...I would be surprised to see a final sales number greater than 583,000<i><b>...that&#039;s still a NEW RECORD by <span style="color: #ff0000">97,000</span>!!!</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b></b></i>The big question is what effect the &quot;buzz&quot; around the 2010 sales figures will do to sales of the remaining 2011 sets. In the past, whenever a new sales record is set, the &quot;buzz&quot; increases sales for the next year&#039;s product. If the Mint has created enough 2011 sets, they &quot;could&quot; sell more than the 2010&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>It will be fun to watch what happens! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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