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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 399062, member: 15062&quot;]It&#039;s getting to be like the B.E.P. and postage stamps.&nbsp; It used to be that there was a standard issue of Definitive stamps used for everyday postage; along with that, every year five or six Commerative stamps were issued to commerate a very narrow list of people, subjects, events, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, in the 80&#039;s the B.E.P. realized that they had a cash cow by the tail and started issuing commeratives for everything under the sun.&nbsp; These were being issued for collectors only and had little use as actual postage.&nbsp; If you wanted to complete year sets you had to buy the junk along with the real ones.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is what the mint is doing now with the dollar coins, quarters, nickels, with the cents and dimes probably not far behind.&nbsp; These coins have nothing at all to do with general money; they are being minted with the idea that they will be taken out of circulation and collected.&nbsp; It&#039;s done for the profit of the mint, not for the convenience of the public.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold is another case.&nbsp; Gold coins are being minted with no idea that they will ever be used for commerce.&nbsp; The mint is doing nothing more than selling bullion at greatly inflated prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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