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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8052437, member: 66&quot;]I don&#039;t know who it was that managed to push the state quarter program through but it probably wasn&#039;t the mint that came up with it.&nbsp; The Mint and the Treasury Dept had fought AGAINST coin redesign for decades.&nbsp; It was a major battle to get the Bicentennial design program through.&nbsp; Their constant reasons for not wanting change was that &quot;it would increase the likelihood of counterfeiting&quot;&nbsp; and &quot;Having more than one design in circulation would confuse the public and they would lose trust in the coinage because they wouldn&#039;t know if the coins were real or not.&quot;&nbsp; They were completely against the state quarter program until all the hoarding resulted in an explosion in the seigniorage profits.&nbsp; Once that happens they did a complete 180 degree turnaround and were all for new designs[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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