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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed23, post: 2186523, member: 32117&quot;]Sorry but I disagree. Congress determines the coinage to be minted, the type of/ purity of the metal to be used, and surely you saw in the news where congress even voted a couple of years ago on a bill presented by the Virginia delegation to retain Jefferson&#039;s Immage on the Nickel forever. The CCAC has gone on record numerous times rejecting coin designs during the state quarter submissions stating the designs were not feasible for minting; and this is not the only times the CCAC butted in. The US Mint only produces what they are told to but they do produce all the dies for our coinage ... with some very liberal changes to designs (such as the Missouri State Quarter design) plus they made their own exception to Congress&#039; direction to the US Mint in deciding it would only produce fractional American Gold Buffalo coins in 2008 when congress intended these to made annually definately. The Secty of the Treas is a figurehead and a lackey of whoever is president at the time, but acts like he does all the work, just as every other department head in government has done since the late 19th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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