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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1910307, member: 19065&quot;]The public didn&#039;t buy all of the 2009 UHR gold coins and after some months melted down tens of thousands of units. I think it was over 60k units melted and remade into blanks for other products.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think such coins are a disaster since the materials can be reused. Certainly they regularly have to do this with many products, but it shouldn&#039;t be so hard to have read a significant amount of coins, ready for delivery as orders flood in on the first days of a hotly anticipated coin release. Their marketing drives the hype and from past experience they should be able to adjust to meet a good amount of that demand. I don&#039;t fault them for not producing hundreds of thousands of clad HoF coins in advance, but in many cases those are shipping ahead of the gold and silver coins that are minted to much smaller allowed mintages and were a known sell out by most collectors and dealers who don&#039;t work for the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>A recent disaster or two might be attributed to the Federal Reserve ordering massive amounts of golden dollar coins, and 2013(?) Kennedy half dollar coins. In such cases the Mint&#039;s circulating coin demand could have investigated such large order requests before running the coin presses, only to have so many warehouses now full of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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