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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 73363, member: 66"]Many mints no longer create their own strip or planchets. They buy them from outside suppliers. So they no longer have the furnaces and equipment to melt them down themselves. Instead they ship them back to the producers of the planchets or strip for recovery. (also since many coins are no longer made from a homoginous alloy, melting would result in a material not suitable for making into new strip directly. In some cases more metal has to be added to get the alloy right, and in others it has to be refined.) </p><p><br /></p><p>But if they didn't do something to deface the coins before shipment they could be a potential target for theft and therefor have to be guarded. If they are defaced so they can't be spent then they are just so much scrap metal worth way less than the face value of the coins and not worth stealing due to the extreme difficulty in handling and the low return for the risk. So it saves the government money since they don't have to provide security for the trip back to the smelter. (plus the cost to bring the guards back.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 73363, member: 66"]Many mints no longer create their own strip or planchets. They buy them from outside suppliers. So they no longer have the furnaces and equipment to melt them down themselves. Instead they ship them back to the producers of the planchets or strip for recovery. (also since many coins are no longer made from a homoginous alloy, melting would result in a material not suitable for making into new strip directly. In some cases more metal has to be added to get the alloy right, and in others it has to be refined.) But if they didn't do something to deface the coins before shipment they could be a potential target for theft and therefor have to be guarded. If they are defaced so they can't be spent then they are just so much scrap metal worth way less than the face value of the coins and not worth stealing due to the extreme difficulty in handling and the low return for the risk. So it saves the government money since they don't have to provide security for the trip back to the smelter. (plus the cost to bring the guards back.)[/QUOTE]
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