Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3698712, member: 66&quot;]They did them in gold because trying to make them in silver would have required new legislation to be pushed through a congress and Senate that were already gearing up for a presidental election cycle.&nbsp; Hard to push something through,&nbsp; But making them in gold they could use existing laws already on the books.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hence the reason why there is some much interest in pushing errors and varieties today.&nbsp; Those CAN still potentially be found in change/rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned they are doing it now, and they did do it in the early years of the state quarters as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is if you don&#039;t have ANY limit you can have the problem we had in 1995-96 during the period of the Olympic commemoratives.&nbsp; Between those and the other commemoratives authorized those years we had 46 commemorative coins during that period. (15 in 94, 10 in 97, a total of 71 commemoratives in 4 years) That was one of the reasons the no more than 2 programs a year rule came about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in