Countries of emission and mintage
As I mentioned in other article, mintage is one of the most important factors, when you think about investing in coins. Lower mintage means higher rareness and more trouble to find the coin in some time. One of the basic rules of economics says that, if the demand is higher than the supply, the price must go up, but what level of mintage is low? The answer is not that obvious, as it is different for all the emission countries. Let’s concentrate on silver commemorative coins. For Canada 5.000 pieces means very low, while that number for Kazakhstan would be extremely high. This difference comes from the difference in number of coin collectors interested in collecting coins form these countries. There are much more people willing to gather Canadian coins than the ones from Kazakhstan. I have gathered some estimated data about the mintage of modern commemorative coins in some countries. These numbers mean maybe not the lowest mintage, but surely low. In some cases there are coins even with lower mintage but it means extremely low:
Australia: 5.000
Canada: 5.000
USA: 25.000
Tuvalu, Palau, Niue Island etc.: 1.000-2.000
Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia: 3.000-5.000
Kazakhstan: 500
Poland: 15.000
France: 3.000
Africa: from: 500
These numbers are just estimation and give only an overall view about the idea of levels of mintage in different countries.
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