I don’t know Mr. Motl, but like you basically noted, at least he comes from within the Mint & he did serve as Chief Financial Officer of the US Mint for a period, so my hope is he uses his insight to correct the problems he faces until someone is nominated by Trump & confirmed by the Senate. Jeppson was from the outside looking in & it didn’t work out well of course. I blame Congress for this whole mess because it is their duty to get these top positions approved at a quicker pace.

-NumisDudeTX

Seth –
So now we don’t even have somebody who grew up in the Senior Executive Service – I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. At least Motl was at the mint during the Moy years to know difference between a real director and these SES seat warmers. But will he just sit by waiting to be replaced or will he actually do something?

By not having a regular head of the Mint for so long, perhaps the inmates have gotten bold and taken over the building and dictating what they want or not want to do .. and from the number of products, less work .. but still collect full pay

The Coin and Currency is the only product I will be regularly buying from the Mint from now on.. (and I can’t put it past the incompetence of the Mint to drop the ball there) … and any RP or EU coin that they might produce (but not gold/platinum/palladium) just so I can build towards a complete type set.

David Motl (former title: Chief Administrative Officer & formerly CFO at the Mint) will fill in at the Mint with the new title of Acting Principal Deputy Director of the US Mint until Trump gets his own man or woman in the US Mint Director seat. Musical chairs again!
6 years & counting without a US Mint Director of the largest Mint in the world! Unteal.

-NumisDudeTX

It would be nice to have somebody interested in coins and coin collecting managing the mint but I’m at the point now where I think I’m more interested in having a director who is responsive in his job and communicates with the public (e.g. via a complete yearlong product schedule) than just sitting in his office pulling down the big salary. We’ll see if Trump the businessman will pick somebody who can do that.