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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3033302, member: 66&quot;]To the best of my knowledge, all of them have gotten their surcharges with the exception of two, the Yellowstone commemorative, and the Girl Scouts. With the Yellowstone commemorative the surcharges was supposed to go to the parks department, but the parks department had no way of raising the required matching funds. So the government gave the surcharges to some other organization that was able to match the funds. I don&#039;t remember who it was. In the case of the Girl Scouts sales were poor enough, and the mint advertised heavily enough, that proceeds did not cover the mints expenses, so the mint kept the surcharge money.</p><p><br /></p><p>In both cases I consider it collecting funds under false pretenses. It was promoted that the surcharges would go to those organizations, the money was collected, but then the organizations didn&#039;t get the money that was promised to them, and the money was not returned to the people it was collected from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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