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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JHLSTUFF, post: 1556452, member: 41473&quot;]Diet Coke,</p><p>First, let me Thank You for the information, it is of interest.&nbsp; I am only repeating what I am being told by people in the Archive division of Coke.&nbsp; I know, that years ago, when we used slate instead of paper....lol.&nbsp; I was the VP of Marketing for an International Co.&nbsp; We produced Corgi Metal Toys of our equipment.&nbsp; We did produce X amount per machinery based on the size of our distributor as well as how much business they did with us.&nbsp; After the program ended, we sold off the rest of the pieces, if my mind serves me correct, about 10,000 of them to a private company who was going to market them to toy collectors and stores.&nbsp; If any of our distrbutors sold to them, we were not aware of it.&nbsp; This is what may have occurred with Coke.&nbsp; I am not sure, researching it with the people at Coke right now.&nbsp; The biggest problem I think most of us are going to have is......the length of time since this occurred.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1977 sounds like a short period ago, however, I can tell you that the individuals that handle our promotion are all no deceased.&nbsp; We are talking 35 years ago.&nbsp; What I have been&nbsp; able to get out of Coke is, working with the marketing company that did this program for them, there were registration forms produced for some of the earlier bottler&#039;s involved.&nbsp; However ass cost started to mount, the personalized card was aborted because, back then, the cost of producing the cards in small quantities was exceeding the cost of the ingot.&nbsp; This I believe.&nbsp; Printing was a high expense at the time.&nbsp; The other issue that I am pursuing, and I think it is sorta like the President Dollars that came out a few years ago: they only did so many Bottlers a year, what I asked in writing from coke and trying to conform from the owner of the World Wide Mint was, did they put the serial number on each bottlers ingots and start over or did they consecutively number all the ingots once they were produced.&nbsp; My belief is the second option, because of cost in setting up the stamping dies.&nbsp; I looked at your form, very interesting, this looks like what they may have replaced the original program.&nbsp; This gave the company who over saw the program the opportunity to get rid of extra ingots.&nbsp; However, II noticed on your form, they never asked for a serial number to register.&nbsp; It looks more like a form to get rid of left overs to whom ever.&nbsp; I have been told by Coke, just waiting for everything in writing, that there were registration cards that went out with the first few sets.&nbsp; And, Denver was in the first group.&nbsp; I am also trying to find out what was the order of bottlers when the ingots were made.&nbsp; i collect many different things, however, not ingots.&nbsp; I have the same problem with another issue regarding the appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show that was actually done in Florida and telecasted to New York.&nbsp; This again is, to many people are dead to confirm certain things.&nbsp; I guess we are all getting older.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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