What would the mint do if I sent them an email asking them what they estimate the survival rate of these 1964-D silver dollars they yet to admit exist? XD
They'd forward it to Homeland Security and have you put on a watch list for knowing too many high level government secrets.
The Mint has been known to be very, very thorough. I'm told they even put a "File 13" in every stall of the bathrooms. Chris
"Typically replies within a few hours". At least, that's what it says on the USMint facebook page. Click "Send Message" (it's located in the "About" box, just below their phone number). But I'm guessing your question might take a bit longer to answer than a few hours.
I imagine that the official stance is that they were all melted. The rumor is that the mint director at that time has 1. And they were counted by weight, so anyone who was working on the melt could have switched one. However, they would have to be in a safe deposit box somewhere because it's been over 50 years and not 1 example has ever surfaced. Because it's illegal and subject to confiscation. One could have surfaced outside the US or on the black market, but so far there is no evidence of 1 existing. Just a rumor. How long do you have to wait before you can pop out this coin and sell it for millions of dollars without the government seizing it? 100 years?
The recent '33 St. Gaudens decision has just told us that not even 84 years is enough. Maybe those 16 additional years will make the difference.
One is also rumoured to be in LBJ's Library in Texas, he was a proponent of minting the coins in the first place. But if the Library has one they are not singing about it.
Yes I forgot about the LBJ library, I read that a while back. But if these 2 coins existed, (heirs of the mint director, and LBJ library) someone would have a picture, a story, it would be impossible to keep a secret for over 50 years, and the more coins that exist, that factor goes up exponentially.
Well, the Langbords obviously held onto the 10 coins that they "donated" to the mint - they languished in a safe deposit box from ca. 1933 on up to 2004 when Joan Switt Langbord turned them over to the mint for authentication. They stayed under wraps for 81 years.
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