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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2539634, member: 16729&quot;]I wonder what others might think is an appropriate number of coins for an Olympic commemorative set, and what would be an appropriate mintage figure?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a case to consider:</p><p><br /></p><p>This silver (Ag 92.5%, Cu 7.5%) coin, shown below, is from the last set of coins distributed in September 1988 for that year&#039;s Seoul Summer Olympics.&nbsp; It was made in both Mint and Proof finishes. </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">This one appears to be of the Mint variety.&nbsp; Interestingly, the Mint strikes of the coins in this last set were rarer than the Proof strikes.&nbsp; While the Korean Mint, Komsco, only made 15,010 of the Mint variety, they went nuts and made 110,200 Proofs.&nbsp;&nbsp; And this was just ONE design out of THIRTY-TWO different coin designs for the Seoul Olympics.</font><font size="3">&nbsp; </font></p><p><br /></p><p>If you consider that there were TWO finishes (Mint and Proof) for thirty of these coins, that makes 60 different kinds of coins for an Olympic commemorative set!&nbsp;&nbsp; And the mintages for each variety were often in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">After the glow of the Olympics had faded by the following April (1989), the Bank of Korea realized that it still had a sizable number of the total number of these coins left unsold.&nbsp;&nbsp; ...Oh, and that unsold amount just happened to be over 2.5 million pieces!&nbsp;&nbsp; AND retailers in Korea were demanding that the Bank buy back their own unsold stocks of these coins!!</font></p><p><br /></p><p>******</p><p>I think this design is supposed to represent the &quot;Show Jumping&quot; event in Olympic Equestrianism.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]544055[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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