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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2495659, member: 66"]They do, it's built into the price of the sandwich. Those individually packaged sauces cost them considerably more than that napkin, so they charge for it. Notice they don't care if you refill your soft drink, but if you ask for an extra cup they will charge you for it. Why? Because that cup cost considerably more than the soft drink you put in it. (soft drinks are a BIG profit item)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of people make that erroneous assumption. They think since they are paying a little extra that more care must have been taken with the item. Sorry but that's not the way it is. You want (hopefully) better care and handling, then you pay a lot more premium and get the mint set.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that most likely the equipment has basically one speed, HIGH. And it is quite possible that ALL of the Reagan dollars were struck and packaged during one short period back in April and have been sitting ever since while the mint went one to other things.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not state, that is a Federal regulation and it only applies to cents and non-silver five cent pieces. You are free to do anything you want to anything else. You can even mutilate, smash, whatever you want to to the one and five cents piece as well. You just can't melt them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Congratulations, luck of the draw.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cents and dimes are smaller and lighter. As the coins get larger and heavier they tend to acquire damage more easily. Dropping a 2.5 gram coin onto another one is much less likely to cause damage than dropping a 8.1 gram coin onto another one.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure why you got that letter as the law only required banks to send any such notes they received back to the Fed. Don't know why or how they even contacted you. Since you didn't deposit it there would have been no reason for the bank to have ever made note of it. And frankly the government would be tickled to death for you to make money off the note. If they kept it the government gets nothing. If you sell it, the money you made was income that you are supposed to have paid taxes on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2495659, member: 66"]They do, it's built into the price of the sandwich. Those individually packaged sauces cost them considerably more than that napkin, so they charge for it. Notice they don't care if you refill your soft drink, but if you ask for an extra cup they will charge you for it. Why? Because that cup cost considerably more than the soft drink you put in it. (soft drinks are a BIG profit item) A lot of people make that erroneous assumption. They think since they are paying a little extra that more care must have been taken with the item. Sorry but that's not the way it is. You want (hopefully) better care and handling, then you pay a lot more premium and get the mint set. I would say that most likely the equipment has basically one speed, HIGH. And it is quite possible that ALL of the Reagan dollars were struck and packaged during one short period back in April and have been sitting ever since while the mint went one to other things. Not state, that is a Federal regulation and it only applies to cents and non-silver five cent pieces. You are free to do anything you want to anything else. You can even mutilate, smash, whatever you want to to the one and five cents piece as well. You just can't melt them. Congratulations, luck of the draw. Cents and dimes are smaller and lighter. As the coins get larger and heavier they tend to acquire damage more easily. Dropping a 2.5 gram coin onto another one is much less likely to cause damage than dropping a 8.1 gram coin onto another one. Not sure why you got that letter as the law only required banks to send any such notes they received back to the Fed. Don't know why or how they even contacted you. Since you didn't deposit it there would have been no reason for the bank to have ever made note of it. And frankly the government would be tickled to death for you to make money off the note. If they kept it the government gets nothing. If you sell it, the money you made was income that you are supposed to have paid taxes on.[/QUOTE]
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