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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2093107, member: 66&quot;]In the last couple years before they cut off the circulation issue the Mint got the great idea to allow the general public to order boxes of rolls directly from the mint for face value (with the government picking up the tab for shipping) as a method of getting large quantities of the coins into circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, what happened was people started ordering large quantities of dollars using their credit cards, the ones that gave them either cash back or free miles.&nbsp; Then when the coins arrived they took them right down to the bank, paid off their cards, and got their cash back and miles at no cost.&nbsp; (and then they could repeat the process again and again.)&nbsp; As for the coins, the banks sent them straight to the federal reserve.&nbsp; That gave the Fed huge quantities of mint wrapped rolls of dollars in storage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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