Given the north american population numbers the ase mintages are not really that high in my opinion uSA,s diverse Christian religious populations that cause so many doomsday preper beliefs and panics will have lead to many of those ase, being buried soon after purchase and they may never to be found again bar pure luck. American $ bills look smell and feel like real money, ase,look and feel like real silver money Perth mint should have continued the original desighn WTE as their bullion investment coin then we would have had a coin that looks and feels like real silver money
Since 2007, GFC the mintage have jump up dramatically Something that one might miss out... from an observation
Perhaps its just a ploy to get people to pay out $20 for a $1 value in the guise of wealth preservation! government theft ? The 2007 and earlier coins before the huge mintage increases UNITED STATES or after 2007 uNITED STATES shows a level of uSA world power loss and even though the original declaration of independence used the lower case u "the thirteen united States of America" USA or UNITED STATES OF AMERICA became the norm and a show of world power and strength in a nation! The change to ase,s in 2008 with just one lower-case letter uSA signifies loss of that power and strength in many eyes. The mintage numbers show a sell off of part of stored wealth that can be requisitioned or seized at any given time.
Government don't need to seize anymore precious metals. They can print those toilet papers as much as they want
Now you can ask more for them I have been snaffling 1996 ase,s from those who believe all ase,s are equal and just ase,s. they could be right but no harm in gathering a low mintage coin even if they are all worth the same
If you believe in the eventual collapse of the uS$ then printing it will cost more than its worth whereas silver will still be silver when that happens (if it happens) the uS government can then reacquisition all the ase,s at a new $1 equivalent value gaining much needed physical wealth! They have done it once before with gold coins
Wish I did I would be a multi millionaire lol I have two complete sets of bullion ase,s from 1986 to 2016, a few spare 86 88 and 96 that I swapped out of my collection for better quality ones, 3 painted ase,s 2000 2001 twin towers and a 2002. Not a big buyer of anything so tubes and monster boxes of ase,s dont do it for me! I am probably wrong but I can see future value in older non graded bullion ase,s Quite a few collectors and stackers laugh but many people in the uSA now buy single older ase,s for birth date coins and are willing to pay a high premium as they are not stackers nor collectors and dont move in pm/coin circles so a high premium is irrelevant to them when they only want to purchase one coin at a time certain year.
the numbers don't match up to the numbers on http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=PreciousMetals&type=bullion here is my graph
