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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 990004, member: 19065&quot;]DAVE: Not sure if you subscribe to these or not but you can get updated mintage (sales) figures, which are published by the Mint, from: the <a href="http://www.greysheet.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.greysheet.com/" rel="nofollow">CDN Greysheet</a> (purchase subscription only), free e-newsletters from: <a href="http://mintnewsblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mintnewsblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">MintNewsBlog.blogspot.com</a>, <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/" rel="nofollow">CoinNews.net,</a> <a href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis.jsp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis.jsp" rel="nofollow">NumisMaster</a>, and <a href="http://coinupdate.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinupdate.com/" rel="nofollow">Coin Update</a>, to list a few. Coin World also gathers the mintage (sales) figures but you must pay to subscribe, hard copies or electronic editions. Also the US Mint web site publishes production figures <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/index.cfm?action=production_figures" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/index.cfm?action=production_figures" rel="nofollow">here.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You are correct that true sales are not known for several weeks, some coins mintages are not &#039;accurately&#039; known for a few years. The Red Book, due to advanced data collection for publishing (printing) schedules, do not print recent years mintages, often for 2-4 years back. The web resources are probably the most accurate and timely way now to keep up to date but are very difficult to gauge for precision.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint produces coins according to coin legislation (see <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ145/content-detail.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ145/content-detail.html" rel="nofollow">Presidential Coin Act of 2005</a>*) not by demand of customer orders. They begin producing inventory before the coins are announced to go on sale and production continues until the end of the year of issue or the allowed <a href="http://firstspousecoinguide.com/first-spouse-gold-coin-mintages/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://firstspousecoinguide.com/first-spouse-gold-coin-mintages/" rel="nofollow">mintage</a> is met, or coins are sold out. By law, coins are only to be produced in the year in which they are minted for, although preparation and production of the next years coins usually begins in the last two months of the year ahead of schedule (against the law), although inventory may be left on sale beyond the issue date (dates on the coin) beyond that year and until all units have been sold-- although typically many bullion issues are pulled when the next years coins release. There are many factors that offset accurate reporting of mint sales vs actual knowable mintage.</p><p><br /></p><p>*&quot;An act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in&nbsp; commemoration of each of the Nation&#039;s past Presidents and their spouses,&nbsp; respectively, to improve circulation of the $1 coin, to create a new&nbsp; bullion coin, and for other purposes.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope some of this helps you along and if you learn any more about how the Mint gathers their sales/mintage data, do let us know![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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