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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7661989, member: 105098&quot;]Got ya Marshall, the mint doesn&#039;t run them through a 3rd party, it&#039;s direct sales though, however, people will game any system.</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel ya on dealers getting a sizeable portion of mintages and flipping for profit on some items, but also I can see why the mint would want to throw the dealers, and in fact the hobby and collector, a bone or two during a trying time as well to keep the hobby, and the coin dealers alive when their doors are shut during the pandemic. It doesn&#039;t explain it all, but I can see the mint wanting to pump some sort of something interest into collectors and dealers during a difficult time, and they would be one of the few that actually could do it to the hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>personally I feel OK about that happening, maybe not all the time, but just generally when needed. I&#039;m not wanting coin collecting to become stamp collecting. Try finding a stamp shop that&#039;s not the post office nowadays LOL</p><p>If the mint can make an item and some dealers can flip them and keep their business alive so I can have coin shops to go to, I can live with that, now if the mint decides to convert everything they make to &quot;authorized dealers&quot;, and no longer attempt to sell directly, I&#039;d be done with the hobby completely, it would be a nail in the coffin for coin collecting in my opinion. the interest wouldn&#039;t be there for most folks without a speculative profit to chase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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