Sell-Out Prediction We can confidently predict a complete sell-out of the 2010 bullion sovereigns about June 2010, although the Royal Mint's retail sales department "The Royal Mint Coin Club", will probably retain a quantity to support its direct sales operation. It is therefore quite likely that these will start to sell at an extra premium price. In 2009 after our initial 5,000 pieces, we placed a second 5,000 piece order, and also upped our provisional order to 1,000 pieces per week. This would have meant that we alone would have taken about 50,000 of the 75,000 maximum mintage for the year. As it now stands, we are extremely unlikely to receive more than about 25,000 pieces, unless any other distributor fails to take up their allocation.

Issue Limits - Uncirculated VersionFor 2005, the issue limit was only 75,000, the lowest bullion sovereign mintage for over 120 years, this has been the same since then. We expect the issue limit for 2010 to be similar.