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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lemme Caution, post: 2889441, member: 90575&quot;]True, outside agendas do indeed control which commemorative coins and medals are produced by the Mint on an annual basis, but that has been the story from day one. In fact, as you most probably already know, when it was decided some time ago that this helter-skelter (lack of?) process had gotten totally out of hand, Congress was prevailed upon to cut the previously runaway annual number of specific-interest-group-driven releases down to just two commemoratives a year. Going forwards, I don&#039;t think the Mint would in any way be able to assert any real degree of independence from its ruling political influences and/or imperatives, most especially so because it takes its marching orders directly from the Secretary of the Treasury. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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