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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 5320622, member: 115909&quot;]The point is if they were never in circulation and never got into the hands of the public then they should’ve been melted down and re-coined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or the Mint should’ve at least taken all of them and put them up for auction to the highest buyer and use that money to pay off the national debt like with Silver Eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p>They also did that when they found a bunch of CC Morgan Dollars in the Treasury vaults in the 1960s. They didn’t just say “Hey any Mint employees wanna buy these CC Morgan Dollars for a dollar?”</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s just not right for the Mint to make a coin with such a low mintage that they know it will fetch insane values and then give those limited coins to Mint employees to later re-sell to fund a luxurious retirement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine if today the Mint made 20x 2020 dime coins with Benjamin Franklin’s face on them instead of Roosevelt’s and then gave them to employees so no one else could get them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any wealthy dime collector would pay a fortune for one of those unique dimes with a mintage of 20 and basically it would result in them selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s wrong for Mint employees, funded by taxpayer dollars to use their job &amp; position to make a huge profit at the taxpayer’s expense.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it is the taxpayer’s expense because they’re doing it while working and using government facilities &amp; machinery paid for by taxpayers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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