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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;metlog, post: 268112, member: 9888&quot;]<b>Reality bites!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Why doesn&#039;t the U.S. mint sell their commemoratives lik the Australian mint does? Well the was&nbsp; a lot of noise some years back made by dealers and speculators about how the mint was making too many of each issue and the collectors didn&#039;t want and wouldn&#039;t buy under these conditions...Uh-huh! (a lot of eighties issues were promoted to the moon and then quickly fell below issue prices: i.e. statue of liberty.) Well anybody loading up on these issues got burned. Collectors mostly began waiting till prices went down, and dealers and speculators couldn&#039;t make a killing! Also realize that not enough collectors objected to this line of thinking,and so went along by default!&nbsp; Now this is political; the squeaky wheel gets the grease;as also those that grease the wheels of Congress get the favors. And an addendum to all of this, is that the good old mint forgets that everything they make has a very high profit margin to it. Their view is because the specialty coins cost more to make, their books look better if they sell them all! So if you want a truly collector market on these coins, write your congressman and the mint and tell them so![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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