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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 98647, member: 66&quot;]I don&#039;t know if it has changed, but it used to be that by law the mint could not use more than a 20% mark up over cost.&nbsp; Of course what they did was to inflate their production costs tremendously.&nbsp; (They would include office space rental at the top market rates even though all the office space was supplied by the government which has acres of unused space, furniture expenses using high figures even though all the office furniture they could possibly use was supplied out of GSA surplus storage at no expense. etc.)&nbsp; And these inflated figures were used as the &quot;cost of production&quot; and then a 20% markup was applied.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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