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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;borgovan, post: 533232, member: 13016&quot;]They just keep them around for a few years. Recently, they just had a big sale of material going back quite a few years. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Mint has a long history of this. Personally, I think they should take orders for a limited time, and then strike coins to demand. A second, although less desirable, alternative would be to mint the coins and sell them for a predetermined amount of time, and then melt what&#039;s left over. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But, no. Instead they Mint way too many coins and keep them around forever. Witness the Pittman disaster from the late 1800s - 1904. Then, sixty or seventy years later they get around to releasing bags of mint state Morgan dollars. Don&#039;t get me wrong...I&#039;m glad the coins were preserved, but the collectors who had mint state examples had to be ticked, as their value was destroyed overnight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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