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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4514378, member: 66"]The only coins the mint sells directly to the dealers and not to the general public are the bullion silver and gold eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know the minimum order was always a single roll.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes and THAT is one way how dealers get all of those "extra coins". Oh and a lot of collectors do the same thing. Also all of those "major dealers" have a ratline of lesser dealers who are buying and shipping upstream to the "major dealer", and all of those lesser dealer also have groups that at trying to buy them up on the mint website and funnel them to the lesser dealer. And if the coin has a household limit greater than 1, many collectors buy all they can and then sell the extras to dealers and once again they get fed upstream to the "major dealers" So within days of a limited issue being released the major dealer has hundreds or thousands of these limited edition coins flowing into them. It has nothing to do with getting special treatment from the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4514378, member: 66"]The only coins the mint sells directly to the dealers and not to the general public are the bullion silver and gold eagles. As far as I know the minimum order was always a single roll. Yes and THAT is one way how dealers get all of those "extra coins". Oh and a lot of collectors do the same thing. Also all of those "major dealers" have a ratline of lesser dealers who are buying and shipping upstream to the "major dealer", and all of those lesser dealer also have groups that at trying to buy them up on the mint website and funnel them to the lesser dealer. And if the coin has a household limit greater than 1, many collectors buy all they can and then sell the extras to dealers and once again they get fed upstream to the "major dealers" So within days of a limited issue being released the major dealer has hundreds or thousands of these limited edition coins flowing into them. It has nothing to do with getting special treatment from the mint.[/QUOTE]
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