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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 1985060, member: 53226&quot;]From that article:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why did they destroy these coins? A quick ebay search shows that they&#039;re worth up to $5600 in PR68 condition. The mint could have sold these coins for at least $2500 a piece, making over $350,000 in profit. By melting them down, they were able to make $1.45 in pennies. Is the mint run by morons? It&#039;s a no-brainer for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>They also shouldn&#039;t have melted down all the &#039;64 peace dollars. 2014 is the 50th anniversary of these legendary coins, and if they had just put them in a vault they could have released a few thousand at a time and made millions of dollars. I&#039;d give good money for a 1964 peace dollar and I&#039;m sure hundreds of thousands of other collectors would do the same. It seems like the mint loves to cut off its nose to spite its face.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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