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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 635909, member: 15929"]The only coins which have a "Release Date" are either special program coins, such as State Quarters, Territorial Quarters, Lincoln BiCentennial Coins, and Presidential Dollars, or Commemorative coins. In both cases, "Release Date" refers to the day the US Mint begins selling them online. Regular old fashioned circulating coinage has never had a release date as they are minted up and stored in Mint vaults until the Federal Reserve orders them. Then they are shipped to the banks for distribution through regular commerce channels. Unfortunately, the vastness of the US Mints product offerings has tainted the new collectors into thinking that everything has a "release date" when the reality is that no such dates exist for circulating coinage. If you're not seeing any 2009-D Nickels, it simply because the member banks in your area have not received any from the Federal Reserve system because nobody is ordering them. With that in mind and along the lines of the US Mint pandering to US Coin Collectors, I feel that the US Treasury department is REALLY missing the boat in not offering roll sets of every coin denomination on a specific "release date"! They could make enough money during these hard economic times to offset a good portion of their overhead and satisfy the needs of coin collectors through the world! Are you reading this Edmund??[/QUOTE]