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    joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 18,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good Question! :*

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    GoldminersGoldminers Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2019 4:52PM

    They preferred to mint gold eagles.

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    SqueekstyleSqueekstyle Posts: 58 ✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2019 12:24PM

    I think Denver is just a straight production Mint. Having toured a few times, plus I work down the street, I think they mention this during the tour.

    "70 percent of the coins struck at the Denver Mint are pennies, the Mint also strikes nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, dollars and commemorative coins. Additionally, the Denver Mint holds the country’s second-largest gold bullion depository, a treasure of $100 billion worth of solid gold bars."

    https://www.govmint.com/coin-authority/post/the-denver-mint

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    P0CKETCHANGEP0CKETCHANGE Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Squeekstyle said:
    I think Denver is just a straight production Mint.


    Does this mean they do not have the capabilities to produce collector-quality coins, or that the powers-that-be have decreed them as unworthy of doing so, or perhaps both?

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    @P0CKETCHANGE said:

    @Squeekstyle said:
    I think Denver is just a straight production Mint.


    Does this mean they do not have the capabilities to produce collector-quality coins, or that the powers-that-be have decreed them as unworthy of doing so, or perhaps both?

    My guess is they just leave that up to the other mints, like San Fran who don't mint coinage for circulation often.

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe they have done a commem or two in the past.

    Maybe they can strike a rare low mintage Silver Eagle. ;):s

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    CoinNoviceCoinNovice Posts: 151 ✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2019 1:04PM

    i recently went on a Denver mint tour and from what I heard, the issue is space. just like they outsource their 1 Cent planchets because they dont have the space to produce them there at that location. buy hey, thats just a guess! :)

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe because Denver is a "mile high" and silver isn't. ????? ;)

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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,641 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    I believe they have done a commem or two in the past.

    Maybe they can strike a rare low mintage Silver Eagle. ;):s

    A reverse proof on both sides with a D over S over W mintmark.

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    FranklinHalfAddictFranklinHalfAddict Posts: 697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m guessing the mint will make a special double reverse, triple enhanced, uncirculated, recirculated, perforated, post consumer, cold filtered never frozen 100th year anniversary edition with a D on it.
    Should be fun to see another 1 oz silver round sell for 6000x melt because it has a different finish and letter on it than the other 17 types of the same 1 oz silver round.

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CoinNovice said:
    i recently went on a Denver mint tour and from what I heard, the issue is space. just like they outsource their 1 Cent planchets because they dont have the space to produce them there at that location. buy hey, thats just a guess! :)

    IIRC, all zinc one cent blanks come to the various Mints pre-punched. They don't punch Cent blanks out of Cent strip (or rolls) at any of the Mints.

    I saw the World War II commemorative silver Dollars being produced at the Denver mint years ago (mid-1990s) while on an ANA Summer Seminar-related special Tour. The space needed seem very small.

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As for the Silver Eagles, don't give them any ideas or we will soon have Proof D mint-marked Silver Eagles to contend with.

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    shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would guess that they don't have presses appropriate, but if they can strike dollar commems, they should be able to do those. Capacity is likely the answer, it's probably a horribly inefficient process to set up to strike 30,000 of anything.

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mustangmanbob Don't forget, $149.99 per coin!

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Squeekstyle said:

    "70 percent of the coins struck at the Denver Mint are pennies..."

    https://www.govmint.com/coin-authority/post/the-denver-mint

    I would like to see these "pennies".

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A selling point would be if they struck them with Colorado mined silver.

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    dcarrdcarr Posts: 10,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Denver Mint has not produced any silver-content coins since 2001. The last gold minted there was 1984.
    For whatever reason, it seems the US Mint is not interested in supplying precious metal blanks to the Denver Mint.

    If the Denver Mint made collector and bullion coins, the San Francisco Mint would be useless.

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    ernie11ernie11 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    I believe they have done a commem or two in the past.

    Maybe they can strike a rare low mintage Silver Eagle. ;):s

    Bite your tongue! :D

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    BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They could and make it limited production and watch the set collectors pay big bucks for em!

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe the 1964 D Peace Dollar fiasco was so bad they figured why bother with ASE's.... ;) Meantime, there are a lot of pictures of the '64D Peace on the internet....though none exist (or so we are told)....Cheers, RickO

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    ernie11ernie11 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You know, I thought I would get erudite, insightful answers to my serious question, but instead I have been getting very funny responses that have made me LMAO....thanks, guys! :D

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    privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dcarr said:
    The Denver Mint has not produced any silver-content coins since 2001. The last gold minted there was 1984.
    For whatever reason, it seems the US Mint is not interested in supplying precious metal blanks to the Denver Mint.

    If the Denver Mint made collector and bullion coins, the San Francisco Mint would be useless.

    They've done at least 1 silver since 2001, the 2014 D Kennedy as part of the 4 silver coin set.

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 42,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    I believe they have done a commem or two in the past.

    Maybe they can strike a rare low mintage Silver Eagle. ;):s

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 32,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I believe the 1964 D Peace Dollar fiasco was so bad they figured why bother with ASE's.... ;) Meantime, there are a lot of pictures of the '64D Peace on the internet....though none exist (or so we are told)....Cheers, RickO

    yes so we are told ;)

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    dcarrdcarr Posts: 10,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @privatecoin said:

    @dcarr said:
    The Denver Mint has not produced any silver-content coins since 2001. The last gold minted there was 1984.
    For whatever reason, it seems the US Mint is not interested in supplying precious metal blanks to the Denver Mint.

    If the Denver Mint made collector and bullion coins, the San Francisco Mint would be useless.

    They've done at least 1 silver since 2001, the 2014 D Kennedy as part of the 4 silver coin set.

    Thanks for the correction - I'm not really "up to date" with mint products - the last time I bought something from the US Mint was 2009.

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    cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2, 2019 3:44PM

    Give them time.

    I'm surprised the Mint hasn't tried to milk collectors with a mint mark series each with different finishes. We could have plain (mystery mint or the normal Philly default), P (I know redundant but that's never stopped the Mint), D, S, and W. We could further have normal circulation, satin, normal proof, and reverse enhanced proof finishes. That way they could sell 20 per year to collectors trying to build a set. Maybe they could also bring back a limited release Charlotte, Dahlonega, Carson City, or New Orleans edition. Imagine the frenzy over a 5,000 mintage Charlotte silver eagle!

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    BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The government has to have some location where the actual work of commerce can happen.

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    planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭

    I’m not really an ASE collector but I am in for “cold-filtered” and especially for “enchanted sandblasted” versions. :D

    I understand the cynicism over the ERP, but I still think the Mint is doing a decent job of engaging with the coin-buying public. If they do get too far off track, hopefully they’ll correct course like they did a decade ago, when they stopped with the gold and platinum fractional-ounce burnished W sets.

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    ShipwreckCoinHunterShipwreckCoinHunter Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭✭✭

    # Well they get a D for effort

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