WoW! Who writes this crap? They must test them for illiteracy prior to hiring to insure they are incapable of writing a press release. Wandering from one subject to another then making a failed attempt to connect the two...,,.. I think maybe it's time to change out the water in the bong, maybe that would help.
I received that as well. I figured they probably got some heat from the silver bullion pushers and attempted to correct it by cleverly concealing the message as an attempt to improve their web service. Yeah, right...
It seems that it would be a bit embarrassing to have to walk back a dramatic global silver shortage statement to instead mean that they're running short of silver blanks...
They've got the silver blanks, problem is they are all tied-up in the cache of their server. I think that's what they are trying to say.
From a may 7th coin world article: "The Mint was able to secure 1,075,000 total planchets, for production spread among six different coins at three Mints, Ryder said." link to it is here. https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...peace-silver-dollars-may-become-annual-series the silver shortage has nothing at all to do with these coins, the mint, David Ryder himself actually, stated they secured the planchets for the mintages already. So apparently the Mint has liars working for them to boot in the PR dept. that can't look up what was stated publicly previously by the mint director. Just wonderful to know! Imagine that, trying to pin it on a blank shortage they don't even have as a reason the website can't handle the traffic for the offering, when it's done the same thing in 2019 and 2020. Just astounding! Unless they are attempting to clarify that the silver shortage has nothing at all to do with why their website sucks so tremendously when they purposely stack a couple hot releases at the exact same time and that the traffic wouldn't have been so bad if there wasn't such high silver demand at the moment,,, because ya know, people love paying $85 for less than $25 in silver value.... sure that makes sense...... ohhhh, now I think I get it, they wanted to clarify there wasn't a "global silver shortage" it's just a shortage of their suppliers that can make more money selling silver to other people instead..... then they re-write the rest of the memo.... instead of "global" it's "our suppliers". too many clown at that circus I say!
I'm sure that most of you have listened to a politician talk. The message is always formatted to be interpreted to suit any audience. Double talk, euphemism's, acronyms, whatever can be used to lie without being obvious. The US Mint is no different. They probably use the same writers as all public servants.
Oh, by the way, thanks for posting this stuff. I shut the mint off. Told them not to send me anymore news releases.
1921 Morgans, and a lot of 1921 Peace are very well struck and imminently more collectable than this modern fluff from the US mint.
