5329, anyone else have a low serial? Interesting this is one serial away from the one listed on Ebay, which I have never owned nor know the seller.
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seller replied to me that $2500 was his bottom dollar and maybe he will just have to list it in Japan as the Japanese people care about collectibles like this, much more than Americans.
Also that people listing rolls of 25 don't even have numbers below 17,000, and that serials 50,000 to 80,000 were seized by the government and 10,000 were peeled.
I kindly replied with a picture of my roll of sub 15k satoris and haven't heard back. for what its worth
Do you have a reference for this?
To our knowledge, the serials only went up to 50500.
I reached out again to the ebay seller and asked if he had any references to prove any serials above 50500.
His response... "Japanese govt raided so anything over is especiall rare. I think I might have seen one dor sale though"
I would call it wild speculation myself. Could there be some Japanese government hoard of satoris that were confiscated, possibly??? - but ones that have never been released and also never had their public addresses published seems unlikely to me.
This makes me wonder what the highest serial satori anyone has seen is? Going strictly from memory, Id say low 43k, possibly 45k serial (ebay has a serial 47,074) is what I have personally seen, but wasn't really looking for post forks so I could be off. Would seem plausible to me that the Japanese government did confiscate some items, as it is very weird that you don't see many sub 10k serial satoris or many with 45k or higher serials. Just thinking out loud here and 100% speculation - I'm sure others have more knowledge and experience than me
Relevant story, when Satori had closed sales due to the Japanese government's request/intervention I was able to negotiate a deal for a box containing the final rolls of Satori that Moto had at the company. When the box arrived Moto had signed the final roll. I cannot tell you the serial number until next time I get to my bank box but will update here when I do. Here is an old photo of the "moto" roll, the final roll to ship.
I would think the early serials 001-5k were probably handed out as gifts, and sold in those little vending machines. By the time they were exported to the states it was probably the 5k serial numbers, and up by that point. 
