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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3588831, member: 112"]Not really, at least not if one knows the history of the mint and it's basic policies. Ya see, for most of its existence the mint has always been very secretive about how and why they do certain things - and not do other things. For example, until recent years the mint would go to extreme lengths to make sure that they never produced any coins that were scarce let alone actually rare. The last thing they wanted was collectors snapping coins up and removing them from circulation. They'd seen it happen, the 1909-S VDB cent was an example. There were others as well. They even did everything they could to discourage the very idea of scarcity or rarity with bullion coins - which is why none of the ASEs or AGE ever had W mint marks on them even though they were almost all made at the West Point mint. But then in recent years they changed their policies, they began to go out of their way to produce scarce coins, even intentionally marketing them as such. It was a night and day switch from 2 centuries or previous policy. Also, their policy always was that they didn't allow cameras inside the mint. So to think that they themselves would make video's of the mint mark process ? Simply put it is/was something that there was no way it was ever going to happen. Until recent years they never allowed or took pictures of anything let alone videos of it.[/QUOTE]