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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;justafarmer, post: 172433, member: 3926&quot;]Money sold to foreign banks is based on the exchange rate (trading value of the dollar) of the foreign currency received. Delivery costs may be charged but production cost has no impact on the exchange rate. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to the mint selling coinage to the Federal Reserve these are intra-governmental transactions which in reality only push expenditures and revenue from one department to another but have no impact on the bottom line of the US Government viewed as a whole. There is no real gain in the above transaction because the US Mint and The Federal Reserve are both part of the US Government.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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