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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24808501, member: 27832&quot;]I believe our government couldn&#039;t care less about the &quot;price&quot; of coins, except to the extent that they can or can&#039;t earn money on seigniorage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>part</i> of the US Mint that deals with issuing special coins certainly does, but I&#039;ve seen no evidence that they <i>recall</i> any targeted-at-collectors coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>FDR&#039;s move, as I understand it, was quite specific to <i>gold</i> as opposed to &quot;coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>When <i>silver </i>was sucked out of circulation, it was citizens that did it, not the government. The government kept its coin presses running full-speed to try to fill the resulting deficit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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