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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1014544, member: 26030&quot;]Can someone tell me why a 1996 ASE is the only coin in the series that carries a premium (selling for between $50 to $60), while all the other dates sell for the bullion price of $27 or so?</p><p><br /></p><p>My first thought was the 1996 ASE is way overpriced. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]98622.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1994 and 1997 also have fairly low mintages, within a few hundred thou. of the </p><p>series low mintage of 1996 -- but they dont appear to carry any premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does this mean the 1996 is truely overpriced?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or instead that the 1994 and 1997, might someday have a more significant premium and might be a good gamble to buy at near the bullion price?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that <span style="color: darkorange"><i>Krispy</i></span> has been posting that he thinks if the ASE program ended, </p><p>that some of the ASE&#039;s will start to get more of a premium.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that&#039;s an interesting thought considering the total mintage of the ASE series </p><p>is now roughly around the series mintage of the Peace Dollar -- (around 200 million)</p><p>and we all know how key dates of the Peace series have shot up.</p><p>Of course the entire population of ASEs were saved and in UNC condition - something </p><p>definitely not true of the Peace series which was issued as a legal tender coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the mintages of the ASE series (note the explosion in numbers </p><p>in the past couple of years) it makes some of the mintages</p><p>in the mid 1990s look even lower.</p><p><br /></p><p>Year&nbsp; &nbsp; Mintage</p><p>1986&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,393,005</p><p>1987&nbsp; &nbsp; 11,442,335</p><p>1988&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,004,646</p><p>1989&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,203,327</p><p>1990&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,840,210</p><p>1991&nbsp; &nbsp; 7,191,066</p><p>1992&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,540,068</p><p>1993&nbsp; &nbsp; 6,763,762</p><p><span style="color: royalblue">1994&nbsp; &nbsp; 4,227,319</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">1995&nbsp; &nbsp; 4,672,051</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><b>1996&nbsp; &nbsp; 3,603,386</b></span></p><p><span style="color: royalblue">1997&nbsp; &nbsp; 4,295,004</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">1998&nbsp; &nbsp; 4,847,549</span></p><p>1999&nbsp; &nbsp; 7,408,640</p><p>2000&nbsp; &nbsp; 9,239,132</p><p>2001&nbsp; &nbsp; 9,001,711</p><p>2002&nbsp; &nbsp; 10,539,026</p><p>2003&nbsp; &nbsp; 8,495,008</p><p>2004&nbsp; &nbsp; 8,882,754</p><p>2005&nbsp; &nbsp; 8,891,025</p><p>2006&nbsp; 10,676,522</p><p>2007&nbsp; 9,028,036</p><p>2008&nbsp; 20,583,000</p><p>2009&nbsp; 30,459,000[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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