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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 582715, member: 66&quot;]Well ten years or so ago the mint was very open with mintage figures.&nbsp; Then they installed all new computer controled counting equipment and boasted how they would have very precise figures.&nbsp; Almost immediately all reports of mintage figures ceased.&nbsp; The hobby publications had to resort to filing Freedom of Information Requests every month to try and force the mint to release the information.&nbsp; After fighting the FoIA requests for about a year and a half the mint finally started voluntarily providing the information to Coin World and Numismatic News.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly the figures provided now after the precision counters were installed are now less precise than the figures from before they were installed.&nbsp; I suspect that was one of the reasons they resisted posting figures.&nbsp; Spend millions on new controls only to find they are less precise than the old methods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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