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Message:: [QUOTE="PeacePeople, post: 1271224, member: 20082"]You are partly correct. In Perth Mint's Lunar series they have 2 sizes in silver that have a mintage limit, the 1 oz and 10 kg, the rest are open to buy based on purchases. The limit on the 1oz silver is 300,000 and IIRC the 10kg is 50. That stated the 2008 1oz mouse that you see for sale was not sold out in its mintage year, but they had the ability to go back and remint more. In fact this year they went back and minted a lot of the lunar II and kookaburras in 1kg sizes due to demand. I'm not sure if they needed special legislation from Western Australia govt or how it was handled, but they got done what they needed to go back and mint more in the 1kg size of older issues. From what I've gathered on the other sizes, 1/2, 2, 5, 10oz and 1/2 kg, when the mintage year is up they are no longer eligible to be made and the mintage of them stops and is fixed at that point. You can go to the Perth mint website and at the top of the page is a bullion tab, click on that tab and it will bring up a new page with a sidebar that has bullion mintages available. It gives you all kinds of great info about how many of what size were made, hence some of the premiums. The serious premium for the lunar II series right now is the 2oz and 5 oz mouse, good luck finding them for sale, and please sit down before looking at the price....[/QUOTE]