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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1398779, member: 66"]For the bullion pieces it all depends on how many are ordered by the distributors. For the Proofs and the "burnished Uncs" some times they set a limit based on how many have been selling in previous years, and sometimes it is left open to the number of pieces that are ordered. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 1995-W the mint set a limit of 50,000 pieces, but you couldn't buy it. The only way to get it was to buy a four piece gold proof set for $999 and they through in the 95-W ASE proof for free. Now at the time proof ASE's were selling at the mint for about $28. But if you wanted this one you had to shell out $999 for four gold coins that most ASE collectors didn't want. In 1995 gold spent the whole year bounced around in the $370 to $390 range so the price of the set was close to three times bullion. In the end they only managed to sell about 31,000 sets (Oddly enough they sold a bunch of of the gold sets without the ASE too. The price? $999. The four piece gold proof set cost the same with or without the ASE.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1398779, member: 66"]For the bullion pieces it all depends on how many are ordered by the distributors. For the Proofs and the "burnished Uncs" some times they set a limit based on how many have been selling in previous years, and sometimes it is left open to the number of pieces that are ordered. As for the 1995-W the mint set a limit of 50,000 pieces, but you couldn't buy it. The only way to get it was to buy a four piece gold proof set for $999 and they through in the 95-W ASE proof for free. Now at the time proof ASE's were selling at the mint for about $28. But if you wanted this one you had to shell out $999 for four gold coins that most ASE collectors didn't want. In 1995 gold spent the whole year bounced around in the $370 to $390 range so the price of the set was close to three times bullion. In the end they only managed to sell about 31,000 sets (Oddly enough they sold a bunch of of the gold sets without the ASE too. The price? $999. The four piece gold proof set cost the same with or without the ASE.)[/QUOTE]
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