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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1326142, member: 66&quot;]They wanted to have a press release for their new changer and had to whip up something to point to even if it wasn&#039;t really new.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t you seen other companies do that?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually I believe the authorizing legislation does specify them as being made for circulation.&nbsp; The reason you can&#039;t get them at the bank was because the banks could not specifically order them as they could the president dollars.&nbsp; And since the Fed had plenty of dollar coins on hand they weren&#039;t ordering any themselves.&nbsp; So if for some reason the banks did order dollar coins outside the ordering period for the next president dollar issue they got mixed dollars that the Fed had on hand.&nbsp; This meant the NA dollars piled up at the mint so they started offering them in the direct ship program.&nbsp; If they were not circulation coins the mint would not have offered them at no premium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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