It is difficult to say how many licensed coin dealers are telling their customers they don't have what they need, but earlier this year, Ute Wartenberg-Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society, said she was asked by an investor how one could buy 10, 000 coins (they are sold in ounce quantities and three fractional versions below that, at a price that is slightly above market value).

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