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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 689824, member: 19065"]This is great to hear about your tracking the FS coins. I agree there's something unaccounted for or unclear about the figures being released. I want to assume that dealers couldn't get away with cherry picking the ASEs/AGEs the way you might be able to with individual boxed commemoratives or special products. I'm thinking the dealers have to buy ASEs/AGEs in large quantities. So I wonder if returns would need to be in full, not sorted through? Also I doubt they could get away with doing that too often without messing up the numbers and straining business relations with the Mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>The return policy probably allows for a degree of exploitation by smaller dealers of special products or commems, but hopefully the Mint is or has learned to account for this in production and accounting. I'd like to see these results published as reflected in sales instead of only sales expressed in mintage numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let us know as you track the FS coins if you detect any patterns or indicators about how the mintage numbers are reported and whatnot. This is a very interesting topic and beneficial to these mintage/production threads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 689824, member: 19065"]This is great to hear about your tracking the FS coins. I agree there's something unaccounted for or unclear about the figures being released. I want to assume that dealers couldn't get away with cherry picking the ASEs/AGEs the way you might be able to with individual boxed commemoratives or special products. I'm thinking the dealers have to buy ASEs/AGEs in large quantities. So I wonder if returns would need to be in full, not sorted through? Also I doubt they could get away with doing that too often without messing up the numbers and straining business relations with the Mint. The return policy probably allows for a degree of exploitation by smaller dealers of special products or commems, but hopefully the Mint is or has learned to account for this in production and accounting. I'd like to see these results published as reflected in sales instead of only sales expressed in mintage numbers. Let us know as you track the FS coins if you detect any patterns or indicators about how the mintage numbers are reported and whatnot. This is a very interesting topic and beneficial to these mintage/production threads.[/QUOTE]
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