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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3082224, member: 66&quot;]And it WAS the bags from the vaults that got melted.&nbsp; AS far as I know the Treasury never made any attempt to recover dollars from circulation for melting under Pitman.&nbsp; Documents from the time speak of transferring dollars from the VAULTS to the mint for melting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus it would have taken a lot of time to recover a couple hundred million coins form circulation, time they didn&#039;t have.&nbsp; Plus most of the dollar coins never entered circulation at all so all of the dollars they needed for melting were right there on hand.&nbsp; It would not make much sense to try and recover coins from circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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