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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CohibaCris, post: 11694, member: 904&quot;]All mintages - but that is stratified over the whole of the denomination portfolio.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that the mint makes money for the Treasury, who is overall concerned with the valulation of the US currency overall.&nbsp; The mint is just a manufacturer of widgits.&nbsp; It just happens that we have to have those widgits to buy other widgits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the high mintages of cents (which BTW the Mint calls pennies in their annual report, makes me wanna scream) and nickels, this figure is pretty good.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone wants to see the Mint&#039;s Annual Report for 2003, goto this <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/about/annual_report/2003AnnualReport.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/about/annual_report/2003AnnualReport.pdf" rel="nofollow">link.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The other agency is the USPS - Postal Service.&nbsp; Once they figured out how to be profitable, they will never run in the red.&nbsp; Can&#039;t say the same for coins. If the Mint&#039;s raw costs of goods increases, they will have a tough time maintaining their profit position.&nbsp; It decreased from 2002.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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