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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3116422, member: 66&quot;]Very good questions.&nbsp; If you went digging back through the Mint sales figures in old issues of Numismatic news you could probably figure it out.&nbsp; Mintage&nbsp; minus the roll sales, minus the bag sales, minus the mint set sales should give you the amount left over.&nbsp; As far as what happens to the leftovers it may depend on how the mint accounts for them.&nbsp; For coins made for circulation they immediately credit the books for the seigniorage as soon as the coins are struck.&nbsp; Melting down coins results in a large amount of money that would have to come back off the books.&nbsp; But since these are NIFC they may not credit the seigniorage until they are sold, or they may not be treated as having a seigniorage profit at all and just a numismatic profit.&nbsp; In which case writing off melted coins would be based just on metal value in and out resulting in a very small loss just from the manufacturing costs and any small losses from selling the scrap metal back to the processors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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