Well thats the million dollar question isn't it @pennsif!! Things that wont change -

• spot price of silver- we will have to pay what ever the current silver price is, plus the premiums associated on top.
• The price to have the metal die stamp manufactred. We will have to pay for both the "new" design and the reverse. Now the #steemsilvergold community do own and have the original reverse die still, and weve used it for the 3 previous rounds. Id have to find out who has it, and then see if 1)they are still contactable 2)the die is still usable as the more you use them, the worse they give a clean press(bits break off/the stamp isnt perfect) 3)if the community is willing to support and give their blessing for the die to be used. We know a few went to the otherside(hive) after the split and cut all ties with steem/steemit.

Now heres the thing, the mintsge number is not as important as you might think. Obviously, a mint will make(charge us) more money the more we ask them to make, but then we can ask for a lower fee per round if we make more. The difference will be fractions of dollars per round, but add that up 1000, 1500, 2000 times and it makes a difference.

A massive hurdle will be - who pays the mint and how the mint wants to be paid..... im guessing everyone here will want to pay in steem??!!?? Are we foolish enough to belive a kint will accept the 431st listed crypto on coinmarketcap as payment? Someone will need to take "payments" in steem, convert to dollars, pay the mint and take any hit on the fluctuating prices if steem continues to drop like a stone. Which is why ive said that im happy to help the PLATFORM and @steemcurator/ @steemcurator2 @steemit or whocever is inchsrge to make, advertise and distribute, but my pockets arent deep enougg to take the risk at the moment!

Anyways, the point of this reply was to give ballpark figures and not write war and peace.lol

If we were to go with a lower mintage of say just 500, this would be a decent number for any micro-mint to happily produce for us, with current spot price, average premiums, labour costs, the cost of die manufacturing and material, I would expect to be paying **£38/$48usd/250 steem PER coin (plus P&P)

Its not cheap!!! Fundraising and help, as i said, from the platform itself could drastically reduce the costs, but thats something wed need to discuss in more depth to grt a better understanding.

If you want to setnup an advisory committee you can 100% count me in to help in anyway shape or form. In fact, ill run this idea by the community later today to het numbers and intrest. My gut feeling is that after the split steem/hive most have cutnALL tiesnwith thisbplatform and would NOT lend their support unfortunately