Buying Mini Bulk Coins From The Mint

Yes, let's contact the Mint and see if they will cater to "the little guy". I can just imagine their response:







All seriousness aside, there are many products for sale, rolls, boxed but all is mostly current stuff. If you are thinking bags of circulated stuff, that ain't the Mint, it is privately contracted through the Federal Reserve Banking system. Those are businesses, volume and bucks count, you the little guy, dont. Just the way it is.

Numismatic advances never cease.
How do they launch these?
Sounds like a really cost effective way to deliver coins.
Do the banks need special equipment to catch the bags?
The RCM churns out a lot of NCLT giftware, maybe they could learn something from our southern neighbors about delivering coins, Ballistic Bags sound a lot more exciting than drone delivery as a marketing gimmick..

Well let's say you wanted to buy 1000 unc quarters, maybe take the chance of some DDO or DDR. Seems you should be allowed to do that a couple of times a year. Or maybe 100 proof coins for gifts. Just can't get em now. I would buy them.
Thanks for the comments though.

Rich

There are two flaws with the idea, that I can see.

One, the coins struck for circulation don't belong to the Mint - they belong to Treasury, who distributes them via the Federal Reserve. To sell them to you, the mint would have to "buy back" some of the coins it just sold. It would also mess up their distribution system. Those coins were minted because they were needed and the Federal Reserve knows where they were needed. You've admitted you don't really want to keep all those coins, you just want to search through them, maybe pick out a few you want to keep, and dump the rest into circulation, presumably at your local bank. The place where you dump those coins is presumably not the same place the Federal Reserve would have sent those coins, so you would be creating extra work in re-shipping those coins you didn't want from where you dumped them back out to where they actually belonged.

Two, you are asking for this privilege purely to hunt for errors. As far as the Mint is concerned, error collectors should not exist, errors should not exist, it is their job to make sure as few errors as possible are created and released into circulation. From their point of view, knowledge of the existence of errors should be suppressed as much as possible, because public knowledge of errors makes their product look bad. They are certainly not going to be interested in starting a program where people are encouraged to deliberately seek out and obtain such errors.

radatat,

I will share with you and you alone (anyone else reading this STOP READING IMMEDIATELY AND CLOSE THIS WINDOW!!) the how and where of my "secret source" for rolls of current-year business strike cents and possibly other denominations as well: Make friends with the nice folks behind service desks at large volume grocery stores, which doesn't include places such as Wally-World..

They don't have 'em all the time, so it's hit-or-miss.. When they do have 'em I never push it, generally trying for 4 - 6 rolls at a time (I only do cents; larger denominations I'd only try for one roll a shot..) I do much better March - June than the 2nd half of a year, although I've gotten 'em year 'round.. I've gotten rolls from both Phila and Denver.. I've at times gotten unc rolls from the previous year too.. So anyhoww, shhhh -- keep this on the down-low, 'k..

As an added note I have gotten closed-style boxes (the type where you can't see roll ends) of cents from banks and some of the rolls were current-year unc.. Just goes to show ya never can tell for sure what the carriers will load into their boxes when necessary, I done guess..

Swamp