25 Million 2008 Sacagaweas?

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They minted almost 25 million 2008 Sacagaweas. That is 3 times the
normal annual production for only Numismatic sales. Has anyone seen a
bunch of these released into normal circulation?

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/index.cfm?action=production_figures&allCoinsYear=2008#starthere

[Mr. Jaggers]

I've not even seen ONE released into circulation, normal or otherwise.

James

[Paul Ciszek]

In article <gkg31...@enews2.newsguy.com>,

The roles of dollar coins that I get from my bank have started to include
Sackies and SBAs (for a while they were just shiny new Presidents) but the
Sackies are old and tarnished.

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On Jan 12, 2:02 pm, nos...@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
> In article <gkg31f01...@enews2.newsguy.com>,

>
> Mr. Jaggers <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote:
> >shreadvector wrote:
> >> They minted almost 25 million 2008 Sacagaweas. That is 3 times the
> >> normal annual production for only Numismatic sales. Has anyone seen a
> >> bunch of these released into normal circulation?
>

> >http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/index.cfm?action...

>
> >I've not even seen ONE released into circulation, normal or otherwise.
>
> The roles of dollar coins that I get from my bank have started to include
> Sackies and SBAs (for a while they were just shiny new Presidents) but the
> Sackies are old and tarnished.
>
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I get two boxes a week. The type of box can vary from week to week and
from season to season. For example: for a while I was getting nothing
but mint boxes of Prexibux, primarily because they minted a huge
number of GW$ for the introduction and then started to reduce the
number for each president until they reached a more sustainable level.
I still get a mint rolled (4 x 10) box once in a while but mostly they
are locally rolled and boxed (5 x 8). The boxes sometimes contain mint
rolls of assorted presidents - presumably assembled from loose rolls
from mint boxes opened up when some bank only ordered a smaller number
of rolls from the armored carrier.

The recirculated rolls in the boxes contain a mix of Susies,
Siouxsies, and Prexibux. If the rolls were rolled in 2007, they may
have been sitting and developed a dark patina and the Prexibux will be
fewer and mostly GW or JA. If they were rolled recently they will have
many more Prexibux.

For example: last week I got one box that was obviously rolled and
packed in 2007, but it still only had 15% SBA. The second box was 100%
mint rolls of Madison, Jefferson, JQA and JA. This week I just picked
up 2 boxes and have not searched them yet, except to see the ends and
open one roll. The ends display a wide variety of Presidents including
the most recent, but the roll I opened had a very worn PROOF MVB. You
can tell it's a proof because of the 3 edge lettering seams where the
3 part dies come together and the remains of the frosted raised areas.
Not much mirroring left on the flats. Looks like a 2008 S.

I can't wait to look through the rest.

By the way, for those who have not read this before, I re-roll the
SBAs with the reverse showing on both ends of the rolls and I stamp
the rolls:

RARE APOLLO XI
DOLLAR COINS
FROM THE 1900's

Then I spend them.