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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Long Beard, post: 4331594, member: 108674&quot;]The mintage in question, irregardless of which is correct, occurred over two weeks in May of 1965. During which time mint employees were permitted to exchange dollar for dollar to acquire them. When the order came down cancelling the release into general circulation and the employees ordered to return them, I find it highly unlikely that all of them had been. Proof of such, their existence after the supposed complete mintage destruction, two were found in a mint vault in 1970 during a routine audit and likewise destroyed. So there are two recorded to have survived.&nbsp; Add in the mystery behind Director Ava Adams, her personal collection containing a 1964 Special Mint Set, among other things, which also &quot;never existed&quot;. Really? Stacks and Bowers cataloged and auction off one in the 1970&#039;s. What else did she have in her personal collection?</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems as though the government picks and choses which non-issued coins they go after. What about all of those patterns and trial strikes over many decades? After all, these were not monetized. Yet hundreds are allowed to exist in personal collections. Does that not constitute a non-issue, which they are surly to claim if or when other 1964d Peace Dollars come to light from private collections. Not to mention theft, which was claimed against the owners of the1933 Double-Eagles. For these reasons it will be years before we see any genuine survivors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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