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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1896578, member: 66&quot;]No the Congress set the mintage limits not the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK you can sell 50K gold coins so you are going to go ahead and strike them.&nbsp; How many proofs and how many business strikes are you going to coin?&nbsp; You don&#039;t know how many of each are going to be ordered, and you aren&#039;t allowed to coin more than 50K.&nbsp; Same question for the silver dollars.&nbsp; You don&#039;t know.&nbsp; So you strike up a modest amount of each say 10K proof and unc each of the gold and 100K proof and unc of the silver dollars.&nbsp; Then the sales do a runaway, everything is on back order and you coin to order.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing happens because average Joe baseball fan doesn&#039;t care about the coin.&nbsp; They said the same thing about the Marine Corps dollar, that there were over a million marines and former marines and families of marines who would all want one of these coins and the prices would go skyhigh.&nbsp; They sold out quickly and nine years later they are still common low price coins not much more than issue price.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because they were all bought by coin collectors and by and large the individual marines couldn&#039;t care less about them.&nbsp; Even the average Joe baseball fan doesn&#039;t care about &quot;Baseball&quot;, he just cares about &quot;his&quot; team.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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