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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1300215, member: 34169&quot;]NGC had already decided not to recognize the bullion coin as coming from a specific mint. Essentially what it looks like to me is that someone at PCGS freaked out when they saw the COA, called &quot;a mint official&quot; and that person did not want to commit to what had been said before. In fact, there is no way that any of the bullion coins came out of West Point. There were already coins in inventory at SF when the mint decided to use SF coins in the sets, which were assembled at the SF mint. PCGS should at least have the guts to tell us who they talked to and if that person does not want to be identified then PCGS should not listen to anything they say. Tom Jurkowsky, Director of the mint&#039;s Office of Public Affairs had already stated that all of the bullion coins were minted in SF. PCGS should have either talked to him directly or simply stuck with the plan in place. There is no reason for any West Point mint coins to be in SF where the sets were assembled unless the mint had planned to use all WP coins from the beginning which is the opposite of what they said. When SF halted bullion production a couple months ago, it was sitting on almost a million coin inventory so there is no way they were unable to set enough coins aside to build the sets. I don&#039;t really care where the bullion coin is from, even if it is unknown. What burns me is that it appears that these operations are being run by a bunch of wimps who don&#039;t even seem to understand the very business they serve. PCGS claims in the email that the COA was a surprise, even though they knew that the story of where the coins came from had gone from unknown to a specific mint. Did they think the COAs were printed after Mr. Jurkowsky&#039;s statement? Did it occur to them how odd it would have been to send WP coins to SF when SF had a huge inventory? Did they talk to Jurjowsky himself for clarification? Of course the initial statement said that the coins could come from anywhere, that is the mint default position, that the coins are all the same, no matter where they come from and that is what they got when they called &quot;a mint official&quot;, the canned answer &quot;there is no guarantee that all of the no mint coins were minted there&quot;. Mr. Jurkowsky should have been given the opportunity to personally address the issue before any change in policy was made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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