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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1147698, member: 11521"]You heard if here first. The Denver Mint will strike Proof coins beginning in 2012! I was in Denver this afternoon and I had some time to kill so I went to the Mint and took the public tour. As I was leaving I bumped into a Mint employee who was also leaving. We walked together for a couple of blocks on my way to my car. I asked him if all the coin presses were Schuler. He said all the Bliss presses were removed a few years ago and now all the coin presses are Schuler presses - both horizontal and vertical models.  Then he said the Denver Mint is going to receive two Graebner presses in a couple of months. He said the Graebner presses will be used to strike Proof coins beginning in January 2012.  He did not explain why the Denver Mint will start striking Proof coins. Is the San Francisco Mint unable to keep up with the demand for Proof coins? I don't know.  Whatever the reason, in 9 months the Denver Mint will start producing Proof coins for the first time. At least that is what I was told from a reliable source. (I don't know the name of the Mint employee and I will not disclose the area of the Mint in which he works because I don't want to bring him any grief if he was not supposed to talk about the Mint's plans.)[/QUOTE]