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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 217692, member: 4626&quot;]Yep, best the Mint can do is make suggestions to Congress.&nbsp; (Wish they&#039;d do that more...)&nbsp; To be honest, I have many more complaints about what the Mint <i>doesn&#039;t</i> do than what they do.&nbsp; There are limited to a degree though.&nbsp; Best that can be hoped for is that groups recognize people events that should be commemorated and lobby Congress to pass coin legislation for them.&nbsp; All commemoratives were (and are) essentially fund-raising campaigns though and it&#039;s the organizations that make the most pressing case to Congress that essentially get their pick about what is or isn&#039;t commemorated.&nbsp; The Mint does get some leeway with the actual designs though; they&#039;re given specifications but can choose the designs specifics themselves as long as the specifications are met.&nbsp; So they do have to answer for their designs to a degree if not for what coins are issued.&nbsp; (Whoever designed the Korean War commemorative, I&#039;m looking at you, lol...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway sorry for detouring the thread a little... back to the 2007 American Silver Eagles.&nbsp; They do look nice, and as I said before do like the new packaging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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