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<p>[QUOTE="Stephon, post: 1972865, member: 71337"]I recently bought Ed Moy's book on gold and platinum eagles and found it to be a very interesting and insightful read. The background information given in this book is in some ways better than the Bowers series books which Whitman published. There is one thing that did get my head scratching in Moy's book: </p><p><br /></p><p>How does the mint price its numismatic products just enough to break even (plus a small margin to cover any potential losses so that taxpayers wouldn't have to subsidize collector purchases)? I find that hard to believe with the way the mint overprices their numismatic products. Why does the mint even make numismatic products and go crazy with the amount of products that they make to collectors if they're not really making any money, if any, off of it? If the mint isn't making money and going out of control with the amount of products that they come up with for collectors, then there really needs to be some reforms made over there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Stephon, post: 1972865, member: 71337"]I recently bought Ed Moy's book on gold and platinum eagles and found it to be a very interesting and insightful read. The background information given in this book is in some ways better than the Bowers series books which Whitman published. There is one thing that did get my head scratching in Moy's book: How does the mint price its numismatic products just enough to break even (plus a small margin to cover any potential losses so that taxpayers wouldn't have to subsidize collector purchases)? I find that hard to believe with the way the mint overprices their numismatic products. Why does the mint even make numismatic products and go crazy with the amount of products that they make to collectors if they're not really making any money, if any, off of it? If the mint isn't making money and going out of control with the amount of products that they come up with for collectors, then there really needs to be some reforms made over there.[/QUOTE]
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