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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2494247, member: 66&quot;]At one time Lost Dutchman had a whole box of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well for one thing the mint no longer has melting furnaces capable of melting them down.&nbsp; Their annealing furnaces can soften the metal but not melt it.&nbsp; That means to dispose of them they would have to ship out undefaced dies to someplace that could melt them.&nbsp; That would be a security risk because they might get lost enroute (That happened to a case of Canadian small size dollar dies and is why the reverse of the dollar became the loon design.&nbsp; It was originally supposed to be the regular voyager canoe reverse but that was changed when the case of dies disappeared.)&nbsp; And even it they arrived safely you then have to worry about accounting for every die to make sure one doesn&#039;t slip away.&nbsp; But if you deface them first before shipping it doesn&#039;t matter if the get lost or one gets &quot;saved as a souvenir&quot; because they can&#039;t be used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also sometimes they aren&#039;t actually shipped out directly for melting but are sold as surplus government property by the GSA&nbsp; (Bulk lots, tons of steel.&nbsp; Not the kind of thing your average person would buy, but something a metal dealer might.)&nbsp; Once again they can&#039;t have undefaced dies dies possibly getting out so they are defaced before being released to the GSA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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