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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 683150, member: 15929"]Just so that everybody knows, a  little recap. These Presidential Oath Dollars are NOT a product of the US Mint but are in fact a product of ARAMARK which currently has the contract for the Gift shops at the Denver and Philadelphia mint. ARAMARK is an outside vendor and has absolutely no affilitation with the US Mint other than to service the gift shop. Thy have exactly the same standing with the US Mint as the coin vendors outside the US Mint at Denver or ANY of the local coin dealers through out the country. The Presidential Oath Dollars consist of an actual Presidential Dollar coin which was pressed into an aluminum collar which has partial text of the Presidential Oath. The Presidential Dollar coin WILL have received damage to it during the pressing operation AND, since the date and mintmark are on the RIM of the dollar coins, there is absolutely no way to tell which mint the coins came from. These coins may have collectible value to the few that buy into the hype surrounding the "limited" availability of these coins but they have little if any numismatic value. I would classify them with the famous "bottle cap" collections which must surely exist somewhere and in very limited quantities.[/QUOTE]