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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WhereEaglesDare, post: 715460, member: 20600&quot;]It cost money to MARKET the coin.&nbsp; They advertised it, they had banners, etc up.&nbsp; So that, in turn, increased the cost of each coin on average.&nbsp; Lets say they made 1 million&nbsp; One dollar coins ( hypothetical) and it costs 700,000 dollars in production costs, then they spend 1 million in advertising the cost of each coin, on average, is 1.7 dollars each.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you flood the market with &quot;Comeritives&quot; and &quot;Memorials&quot; it ruins the market and drives the value of all other coins and other similar artifacts down.&nbsp; Its simple Supply and Demand.&nbsp; Same thing happened to the comic book collection market in the 90s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, I feel these coins are a waste and hurt the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>That gets me back to my original point.&nbsp; It costs money to make a penny, yes, but if they stopped WASTING money on these superfluous items then the cost of a penny would be much more negligible in the grand scheme.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I do agree that the State Quarters could be considered a success, but again they spent money to advertise and etc.&nbsp; Why couldn&#039;t they just keep the sitting eagle quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Condor:</p><p>Mint Seniorage?&nbsp; Could you explain this?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I am wrong about my assumption earlier about taxes, please excuse me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, the number one reason and its still not much of a reason to radically change our currency.&nbsp; IMO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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