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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 817233, member: 19065&quot;]I understand what you are upset about, however I don&#039;t think you are fully recognizing the enormous production issues related to the two lines of coins nor the impracticable nature of &#039;firing&#039; up production of Proofs and fractionals midyear. IF demand was heavier earlier in the year and they made such decisions to only set up production for unc coins or to convert all operations to focus on unc coins only, then the Mint wouldn&#039;t have the time during the space of the minting year to stop any of those production lines and retool production for proofs nor for fractionals. I think the problem was that they made a decision to fore go any other proof numismatic production of silver and gold and buffalo fractionals, they stuck with that decision, they ended up with a surplus of uncs at years end (after many people exhausted budgets on bullion) and yet didn&#039;t inform the collectors until October about the Proofs and fractionals. The collectors who may have been holding back their coin budget waiting for these coins felt jilted and lost many points in the year when they might have bought the UHR for MUCH less or entirely took their collecting budget elsewhere after the Mint&#039;s announcement. I think the Mint did irreparable damage to many devout and long time ASE and AGE collectors by their decision and late announcement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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