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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 281802, member: 112&quot;]Rickie in all honesty I don&#039;t think it has anything to do with mintage limits. I think it has to do with the public&#039;s perception and anticipation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, until very recently sell-outs of mint products were all but unheard of. The only one I can even remember prior to 2 years ago was the Buff dollar an there were 250,000 of those - each. And starting with them, the only reason they sold out was because of speculation caused by all of the talk about them on coin forums before they were ever released.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very same thing is happening now and has been for 2 years. Collectors aren&#039;t buying the coins - speculators hoping to make windfall profits are. So it isn&#039;t demand driving these sales - it&#039;s dollar signs in people&#039;s eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if the mint went to unlimited production numbers, I all but guarantee you that interest and speculation would die almost immediately. And as a result mintage numbers would drop dramatically and we would see a whole new batch of mint products with very low mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>A look back at any of the gold commems of the last 10 years will show you that they all had mintages under 12,000 - most of them under 10,000 for the business strikes. And even the combined mintages of business and Proof were well under 40,000 in all cases but 1. And yet there is no demand, there are no high prices for these coins. And almost every single one of them has a smaller mintage than the Spouse gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>No my friend, it isn&#039;t demand driving the value of these coins, it&#039;s speculation - greed plain and simple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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