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<p>[QUOTE="Slider, post: 1904383, member: 44205"]I'm a part time firefighter and I bought two of the 9/11 medals released in 2011 to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the event. Between the two, they minted about 65,000 of the P mint and about 100,000 of the D mint. I thought perhaps I'd bought a relative rarity in modern coinage. Today, they can easily be purchased for 30% less than their release price. </p><p><br /></p><p>The point being that we could fill pages here of examples of relatively low mintage U.S. Mint coins and medals whose prices have failed to rise much over time. I suspect that when viewed as a whole, the low mintages of private mint issues are even less relevant to their future market values. Scarcity and price are not mutually exclusive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Slider, post: 1904383, member: 44205"]I'm a part time firefighter and I bought two of the 9/11 medals released in 2011 to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the event. Between the two, they minted about 65,000 of the P mint and about 100,000 of the D mint. I thought perhaps I'd bought a relative rarity in modern coinage. Today, they can easily be purchased for 30% less than their release price. The point being that we could fill pages here of examples of relatively low mintage U.S. Mint coins and medals whose prices have failed to rise much over time. I suspect that when viewed as a whole, the low mintages of private mint issues are even less relevant to their future market values. Scarcity and price are not mutually exclusive.[/QUOTE]
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