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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1822866, member: 112"]From an article first published in Coin World Sept. 16, 1996, by Michael P. Lantz - one of the mint employees who was there, who actually helped mint the '64 Peace dollars. Lantz reports a larger mintage number as well - 380,000 to 440,000. With no one knowing for sure. One thing that I found interesting was that then Superintendent Fern V. Miller called the 1964-D Peace dollars "model coins." A rumor that keeps coming up is that Mint employees were allowed to buy two of the dollars but later had to return them. It is not Mint policy to release coins to its employees before they are released to the public. A good example of this is the 1964-D Kennedy half dollar. The Mint started production in late December 1963 on the Kennedy half dollar. None were sold to employees until the official release date in March 1964, even though the Mint had been making them for almost three months. So, why would the Mint handle the silver dollars any differently? No, none were sold to employees that I know of. I have never talked to any Mint employee who was able to purchase one. It would be of great historical significance if one had been saved, but I have only seen one and that was at the Mint, in May 1965. One other statement from Lantz - Each person who had anything to do with the program had to sign a statement that none were in his possession and that all had been destroyed. Some of the fellows had a problem with this and the statement was changed to read all that they had seen were destroyed. You can conclude whatever you want from that. Anybody that wants to read the entire article, send me a PM with your email address and I will send a copy to you.[/QUOTE]

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