Perhaps they are trying to attract younger people into the hobby via KungFu panda? Trying to expand the market is not a bad thing. If a fraction of the kids bought the kung fu panda label just because 1.) they like the move 2.) they like the panda that would certainly pull several coins out of...
Trust me when I say I completely understand where you are coming from with this and in a lot of ways I feel the same. If you noticed, i said 'SOME' PM's, not all. In our lifetimes there will be spurts of instability and these PM's are good to counter the effects of a downward market. When you...
I'm looking at it as another buying opportunity. End of the year is always tough for me but at least this year I'm not selling. It sucks if you have to sell. A good cash position in Dollars looks the way to go and buy physical as premiums collapse or paper at the right entry point...
Seeing those prices, I'm glad I didn't pick it up. The delays no doubt hurt. I'm off this train, as well as a bunch of other trains. Risk/Reward ratio isn't there, hopefully there is the collector market that will help it out
Either way, the premise of lost market share is not correct. If they are in fact sold out, that would show market share is still strong and not in decline. I am still surprised it is so cheap in Europe though, but it is 30g.
Your numbers are wrong. The mintage for 2016 is 600k across the board.
The 2017s saw an increase 200k units of 3g, 400k units of 1g and 30g increased 100k, not including the 150g which is upped from 50k to 60k.
Total gram increase.
200,000
1,200,000
3,000,000
1.5m
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5.9m g / 31.1 =...