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<p>[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2406447, member: 34882"]Nothing the mint can do will stop this from continuing on anything that seems like it will be popular with a limited mintage. Look at how many people on our own forum get family, etc to create an account to buy for them for example. Then think even if the mint imposed a 1 or 2 coin limit for the first week or so, that would do almost nothing to deter the big guys from offering to pay people to buy the coins for them. </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint should just go back to how they did it with the 2008 fractional Buffalo's and make it unlimited mintage for the sales period. Then people who actually want one of the coin can get one easily from the mint and flippers are left out unless they want to take a long term speculative risk which deters many of them. This system also resulted in at least for those fractional Buff's a much lower mintage than this Mercury dime issue. And that was for all sizes of the Buff's combined coming in at less than 125k which in the end lets true collectors get a greater value out of the coin in the long run.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2406447, member: 34882"]Nothing the mint can do will stop this from continuing on anything that seems like it will be popular with a limited mintage. Look at how many people on our own forum get family, etc to create an account to buy for them for example. Then think even if the mint imposed a 1 or 2 coin limit for the first week or so, that would do almost nothing to deter the big guys from offering to pay people to buy the coins for them. The mint should just go back to how they did it with the 2008 fractional Buffalo's and make it unlimited mintage for the sales period. Then people who actually want one of the coin can get one easily from the mint and flippers are left out unless they want to take a long term speculative risk which deters many of them. This system also resulted in at least for those fractional Buff's a much lower mintage than this Mercury dime issue. And that was for all sizes of the Buff's combined coming in at less than 125k which in the end lets true collectors get a greater value out of the coin in the long run.[/QUOTE]
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