Which ought to be the intent of the control folk at the mint. Manual intervention in the order process make for unpredictability and inability to completely reverse engineer their fraud and money laundering controls.
That said, we know the controls are weak from the point of their computer system. The system was designed to take orders, not to deter orders.
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dayone
I don't know if I agree with 100% of what you said but I do agree that the order system is not as predictable and transparent as many believe.