.....As part of the Obama Administrations Campaign to Cut Waste, Vice President Biden today announced the U.S. Mint would suspend the production of Presidential dollar coins for circulation. Today, nearly 1.4 billion surplus dollar coins are sitting in Federal Reserve vaults due to lack of demand for the coins.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/13/campaign-cut-waste-vice-president-biden-announces-us-will-halt-productio
I’ll take them off the fed’s hands....