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<p>[QUOTE="Coinman1981, post: 965165, member: 20610"]Yes, it's so overwhelming. I got my first U.S. Mint catalog in 1993, and though the U.S. Mint had by then already gotten into the business of selling tons of things, I recall first feeling a little discouraged when the 1995 and 1996 catalogs came around with the Olympic coins. Beautiful coins all, but there was no way that I was going to afford picking them up. Now with the dozens of bullion offerings, quarters, dollars, and all the other stuff (and now we have first-day covers, coin spoons, coin jewelry, etc...) I'm beginning to wonder if the U.S. Mint, HSN, and ShopNBC are all distant cousins LOL. </p><p><br /></p><p>From the consumer perspective, it's great the U.S. Mint offers so many things now for all kinds of shoppers, but it's really now a matter of 'picking and choosing" when it comes to shopping at the U.S. Mint. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still content with my single mint set every year <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ... though that sadly no longer costs just $7.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Coinman1981, post: 965165, member: 20610"]Yes, it's so overwhelming. I got my first U.S. Mint catalog in 1993, and though the U.S. Mint had by then already gotten into the business of selling tons of things, I recall first feeling a little discouraged when the 1995 and 1996 catalogs came around with the Olympic coins. Beautiful coins all, but there was no way that I was going to afford picking them up. Now with the dozens of bullion offerings, quarters, dollars, and all the other stuff (and now we have first-day covers, coin spoons, coin jewelry, etc...) I'm beginning to wonder if the U.S. Mint, HSN, and ShopNBC are all distant cousins LOL. From the consumer perspective, it's great the U.S. Mint offers so many things now for all kinds of shoppers, but it's really now a matter of 'picking and choosing" when it comes to shopping at the U.S. Mint. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still content with my single mint set every year :-) ... though that sadly no longer costs just $7.[/QUOTE]
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