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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;karrlot, post: 85094, member: 4476&quot;]I think my most favorite coin is the SBA.&nbsp; It was minted for 3 years, noone used it, it flopped, they stopped minting it. For twenty years it sat in the vaults collecting dust.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The government decided that since it owned all the stamp machines, it would MAKE people use the SBAs, by giving them in change.&nbsp; They started getting low on dollar coins so they decided to make a new dollar coin, the Sacagawea.&nbsp; They were going to run out of SBAs before the Sac would get produced, so after a 20 year hiatus, they did another run of SBAs.&nbsp; I think its really funny that a coin was only minted in four years, but they were two decades apart.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Are there other coins that had a gap in mintage of that long?</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is an ugly, confusing thing, but I love the story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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