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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 1467058, member: 19065"]The Mint may also not wish to publish these numbers so readily alongside all products if they find collectors start to shun products based on mintage levels increasing. That hurts their profit, the Mint's profit, and becomes a costly enterprise to maintain. Products become harder to sell, and demand wouldn't really be 'demand' in the same sense if the market became so finicky. In such a case, the Mint might revert to very slim limited mintages, more like what other world mint's produce in terms of 5k, 10k and such lower mintage limits to special coin releases. That wouldn't bode well for the size of the U.S. modern coin collecting market either. Some information the U.S. Mint may not wish to publish or make less accessible for just these reasons. After all, we collect coins, and less so mintage statistics. Mintage obviously helps us to understand rarity, but with modern production levels, none of what comes out of the U.S. Mint is really all that rare. At some point chasing numbers from press releases gets rather tedious and less about the coins and the hobby than some other obsessive thing to meddle about while were waiting for some other product to roll out.[/QUOTE]