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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 410800, member: 66&quot;]Actually they did strike cents in 1815.&nbsp; A soon as the war ended the mint ordered planchets from Boulton and the arrived in December of 1815.&nbsp; During the last week of the year th mint began striking cents again but used 1816 dies.&nbsp; So there were no 1815 cents, but cents were struck in 1815.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No a shortage of bullion was not a problem.&nbsp; In the early 1930&#039;s the Treasury had hundreds of millions of oz of silver on hand and was about to embark on a major silver buying program that caused the Treasury stockpile to swell to over two billion oz by 1935.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as for 1921, the mint had plenty of silver on hand for the minor coins because none of their stock was going into the 1921 dollars.&nbsp; Under the provisions of the Pitman Act all the silver for the dollars had to come from newly mined silver purchased on the open market.&nbsp; The problem in 21 was a lack of coining capacity as everything was tied up striking silver dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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