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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 578074, member: 17753&quot;]In another thread I spoke about the US Mint kiosk at Union Station.&nbsp; It has many of the offerings that the Mint website has -- but no postage and no waiting.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51790/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51790/">http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51790/</a> for more info.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, I visited the other store that the US Mint operates -- it&#039;s in the lobby of a US Mint office -- 801 9th St NW, Wash DC.&nbsp; The guy behind the counter was pretty knowledgeable, and seemed to be somewhat of a collector himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest news (to me) is that he said that they&#039;d be offering the new Lincoln Cents -- on May 14th only -- at exchange rate <span style="color: Blue"><b>with no limit on the amount to be purchased</b></span>.&nbsp; Yeah, I know it sounds too good to be true, but I&#039;m just tellin&#039; y&#039;all what he told me.&nbsp; I kept asking &quot;are you sure&quot;?&nbsp; He said yes.&nbsp; He also said that at the end of the day (on May 14th) they will ship whatever leftover new cents they have remaining <b>back</b> to the Federal Reserve.&nbsp; He stressed: they are only going to have these cents for one day.&nbsp; He said they will be in US Mint rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other cool thing about this place is that they had three &quot;change&quot; machines with the latest dollars and quarters. I.e., you can put in a $1 or $5 bill, and get back (depending on the machine) the equivalent amount in Harrison dollars, 2009 Sac dollars, or 2009 Puerto Rico quarters.&nbsp; There&#039;s no guarantee of mint mark, although the guy said they try to mix them.&nbsp; He said that as soon as the newer coin comes out, they remove the old one (e.g., no DC quarters there; and when Guam comes out, they&#039;ll remove the PR ones).</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the end of the Mint Report.&nbsp; (The rest of this is what I&#039;m doing with the above information):</p><p><br /></p><p>The only PR Quarters I have are in P&amp;D Mint Roll sets (which I will sell/flip when the price is right -- probably right after they sell out at the mint), so I don&#039;t have any for my quarter album.&nbsp; So I stuck a $5 bill in the machine, got myself 20 quarters.&nbsp; There was a mix of P &amp; D, ranging from AU to MS.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Lincoln cents on May 14 -- in another thread I said that I couldn&#039;t get them for anyone because (as they told me at the kiosk) the limit was 10 rolls per person and all 10 were spoken for.&nbsp; But at this place <b><span style="color: Blue">** IF **</span></b> there truly isn&#039;t a limit, I&#039;ll try to get lots and lots, and if I succeed, I can get rolls for folks here (priority goes to those who will trade me Lincoln Log Cabin rolls).</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s it for now![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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