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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2494727, member: 59677&quot;]Remember, they only made the coins because the law required it - their customer (the Fed) wasn&#039;t going to order them since there are billions sitting in vaults that nobody wants.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the dilemma is that their only customers for these later presidents is collectors and the mint are already committed to charging a surcharge for the privilege of being able to buy the coins.&nbsp; How high? Supposedly enough to cover their costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently if they were to actually put some quality into the minting it would cost them extra and they would have to up the surcharge. And then maybe nobody would buy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So they dump them into the ballistic bags, dump them out of the ballistic bags into the rolling machines and box the rolls. Care? Not part of the job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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