Space Empires IV as collector item?

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I heard, recall but cannot confirm that about 5,000 copies of the game were sold. Seems like a low number if you ask me, but then again, who knows. Didn't shrapnel report that they hit the 500k mark in sales? If that were true then they sold around 13,000 copies or so.

Given the core nature of posters over the years I find it hard to believe that THAT many copies of the game were ever sold. I mean it would be great if that many had been sold, but its more realisitic to think that about half that many or less were sold.