They should have made this one with a hole in the middle. A bronze do-nut.
The U.S. Mint director is a career hack who rose up through various HR departments throughout the federal bureaucracy. You can take it to the bank that she is fully saturated in the DEI agenda, as well as knowing absolutely nothing about minting US coins and printing currency.
Reference: https://www.usmint.gov/about/leadership
They should have made this one with a hole in the middle. A bronze do-nut.
In my local hardware store, there are bins of these in zinc, various sizes, called flat washers 🤭