There's two types of SSL certificates that can be issued. There's full certificates and there's staging certificates.
The staging certificates will give you a browser warning when you visit your site, something like, "This is not secure".
"Staging certificates" have no issuance limits where as "full certificates" do have issuance limits
To issue a live certificate set:
SSL_LIVE_CERT="1"
rather than
SSL_LIVE_CERT="0"
which will issue a staging certificate.