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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 3086032, member: 2098"]"None of the documentation provided to Coin World pursuant to its April 5 FOIA request nor gained from direct inquiry to Mint officials answers when the U.S. Mint began amassing the bags of gold coins; or over what period the coins were accumulated and for what purpose; or why the Mint doesn’t either melt them and reclaim the metal for U.S. coin production or sell them as a numismatic product, in much the same way Treasury-held bags of Seated Liberty, Morgan and Peace silver dollars were dispersed in the 1960s and 1970s."</p><p><br /></p><p>I vote for them to be dispersed to the public (gradually or staggered) than to be melted down to make modern commemoratives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 3086032, member: 2098"]"None of the documentation provided to Coin World pursuant to its April 5 FOIA request nor gained from direct inquiry to Mint officials answers when the U.S. Mint began amassing the bags of gold coins; or over what period the coins were accumulated and for what purpose; or why the Mint doesn’t either melt them and reclaim the metal for U.S. coin production or sell them as a numismatic product, in much the same way Treasury-held bags of Seated Liberty, Morgan and Peace silver dollars were dispersed in the 1960s and 1970s." I vote for them to be dispersed to the public (gradually or staggered) than to be melted down to make modern commemoratives.[/QUOTE]
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