Off-Topic, but does anyone live/work in D.C.?
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I realize this is the Darkside, but, as this is where I call home & spend all my time these days, I thought I'd ask.........
Looks like next Mon or Tuesday, the Mint is going to hold an "exchange".................
People can exchange their money for $2 rolls and 100-coin (or is it $100) bags of the new "Buffalo" nickel - - all to kick-off their distribution into circulation!
I figure a lot of dealers will be there looking to get them cheap & re-sell at a profit, but all I'd like is to get me a few for our Whitman folder collections! Otherwise, I'll have to sit around heer for what will seem like MONTHS until my local banks start getting them in & distributing them!
Anybody going to be in the vicinity who wouldn't mind picking me up 4 or 5 coins?
Thanks!
- - Dave
Looks like next Mon or Tuesday, the Mint is going to hold an "exchange".................
People can exchange their money for $2 rolls and 100-coin (or is it $100) bags of the new "Buffalo" nickel - - all to kick-off their distribution into circulation!
I figure a lot of dealers will be there looking to get them cheap & re-sell at a profit, but all I'd like is to get me a few for our Whitman folder collections! Otherwise, I'll have to sit around heer for what will seem like MONTHS until my local banks start getting them in & distributing them!
Anybody going to be in the vicinity who wouldn't mind picking me up 4 or 5 coins?
Thanks!
- - Dave
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There is no branch of the US Mint in the District Of Columbia. Only the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing, to my knowledge. (Paper currency).
Did you mean Philadelphia?
Edited to add: LM, the Mint headquarters building is in downtown DC, and there are plans to open a museum there.
"The Mint will trade $100,000 in new 5-cent pieces for old ones on Tuesday in Washington."
"When the Treasury holds a gala nickel exchange Tuesday at the Russell Senate office building and Union Station in Washington, a bison will be on hand to celebrate the new 2005 nickels."
"That day, crowds are expected to exchange coins and currency for $2 rolls and 100-coin bags of the new nickels. Mint officials say they will have $100,000 in the new nickels to exchange between 11:30 am & 3:30 pm."
"All this because of the excitement over the new coin design........"
"The new coin, officially entering circulation Monday, is the third new nickel design in a year....."
<< <i>Edited to add: LM, the Mint headquarters building is in downtown DC, and there are plans to open a museum there. >>
Hmm. Interesting.