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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hommer, post: 3345348, member: 73266&quot;]To add to [USER=77976]@Nathan401[/USER] &#039;s post, as was stated, they were sold to raise funds to recoup the cost of the fair. What most don&#039;t know is that the mint sold them to the Fair Committee at a reduced price to sell at the fair at a profit. Subsequent Commemoratives were also sold to groups at reduced prices and resold at a profit to fund all kinds of things. If they weren&#039;t sold, they were supposed to be returned to the mint. There became a problem when Commemoratives like the Arkansas were produced for many years but weren&#039;t selling very well and most of the mintages were being returned to the mint for melting. </p><p><br /></p><p>As was the case a lot of commemoratives not returned were released into circulation at face value. As for the Columbian, I believe over 2 million were dumped into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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