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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1958949, member: 66&quot;]Not if they have already been struck to make an entire authorized mintage before the the coin goes on sale.&nbsp; I realize this isn&#039;t possible for the Kennedy sets since there is no mintage limit, but on some earlier issues it would have caused problems if they had followed that procedure.&nbsp; For example the 2011 US Army dollar had an authorized mintage of 400,000 for both Unc and proof combined.&nbsp; Now if you are going to strike them all before they go on sale how many of each do you strike?&nbsp; And even you could figure out a split, once sales ended they would have still had over 236,000 stuck coins on their hands.&nbsp; If they were planchets, they could have been held over and used for the commemorative dollars the next year.&nbsp; But if they had struck them all ahead of time, as suggested, they are now useless and have to be melted back down and reprocessed into planchets all over again.&nbsp; That costs money.&nbsp; (The mint doesn&#039;t do it themselves they would have to pay to ship them to a private firm that would melt them down and process the silver back into planchets, and then ship them back to the mint.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Any time they had an authorized maximim mintage if they followed the &quot;coin them all up ahead of time&quot; they would run the risk of running into that possibility.&nbsp; That don&#039;t that and that is why they don&#039;t usually end up holding the bag.&nbsp; (But this is also why they often wind up selling the silver proof sets well into the following year.&nbsp; They pre-coined too many of them.&nbsp; So it means either extend the sales window, or melt them down and lose the money invested in them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I will agree that the mint IS usually too conservative on the number it does pre-strike.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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