Almost every claim made by Brian has been a lie and busting him does not help determine the mintage of each round. Dusty is trying to make lemonade out of lemons and knowing the mintage numbers will help do that. Everything else to do with Brian already has another thread to post on.
Allegedly, they will not release the mintage of any coin so they can stamp out some more and sell them to profit as much they can at everybody else's expense. Allegedly they also think pigs fly and the sky is green.
End 2010 a mintage of 50,000 for the Andean Cat design has been mentioned on their site. "Only 50,000 Andean Cat Silver rounds will be minted.". A limit doesn't equal a production.
As a late update (on purpose), these mintages were provided by the producer: Andean Cat 2010 9,500 (more made but many of the newly minted (free) exchanged for earlier minted due to striking quality problems before feb 2011). Andean Cat 2011 15,000 (approximation) Some statements: - Minting was completely on order. - RSC ceased silver round production years ago. - The Andean Cat design will not reappear. - If production is reactivated, it will be new designs. I'd like to have some. Not mainly because of scarcity, but mainly because cat subject coins are hard to find, and the cat subject is popular on any product. I consider it a silver marketing gap.
