Huh? I prefer this one, “I’m a chicken hawk and I eat chickens.”

I remember when the SBA dollars were referred to as “Carter quarters”.

Like they did in Canada, eh?

The Ball of Confusion’s Element of Confusion, Unobtainium. And the band played on…

I think you hit on all cylinders – keeping the 18 happy is probably high on the list and I would speculate the US Mint uses leverage over it’s suppliers to lock in prices at less frequencies than the daily trade variables or futures; in other words it’s very confusing yet I have a better understanding than before – thanks Rich

Correction: in b) above the part about “pricing varies on a weekly basis as per the Mint’s pricing range table…” is incorrect because the hypothetical enrollment price would be TBD until the release date at which time the price set would be the same as the online ordering price based on the pricing range table and all the enrollment orders would be fulfilled at one time on the day of release (or the day before). So weekly pricing changes do not apply in this case.

Ditto for no enrollments for platinum and palladium products. Some possible reasons might be: a) the mintage/product limits for proof/uncirculated Gold, Platinum and Palladium American Eagles is too low compared to proof/uncirculated Silver American Eagles; b) the sale prices for gold, platinum and palladium products are so much higher than the silver products and their pricing varies on a weekly basis as per the Mint’s pricing range table compared to the silver products which have an established fixed price; and (on a speculative wild guess) c) the premiums (sale prices over the spot price) charged by the Mint for the Gold, Platinum and Palladium products are so much smaller than for the Silver products that it would cut into the big money profits made by the 18 Dealers’ businesses that sell the gold/platinum/palladium proof/uncirculated products to the public at huge markups over the Mint’s prices, as compared to what they can charge for the silver products (i.e., with so much money to be made from the gold/palladium/platinum proof/uncirculated products by the 18 dealers/businesses, they would not want the general public to secure more of these products directly from the Mint via the Enrollment Program, and the Mint most likely wants to keep the “18” happy). Just guessing…

I seen his obituary like 2 years ago and now he has a new TV series Hmmm

I think we are going to experience other short term emergencies before coinage becomes an issue –

But in recognition of your Numismatic forward – thinking I nominate you for The Numismatic Nobel Peace Prize which I think I just invented.

Remember Government waste is not wasteful from a Governmental perspective…