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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;taurus876, post: 231744, member: 5583&quot;]According to wikipedia</p><p><br /></p><p>Seigniorage is the profit gained by a government when it issues currency. The U.S. government discovered at the launch of the State Quarters series that a large number of people were collecting each new quarter as it rolled out of the U.S. Mint, taking the pieces out of circulation. Since it costs the Mint less than five cents for each 25-cent piece it produces, the government made a profit whenever someone bought a coin and chose not to spend it. The U.S. Treasury estimates that it has earned about $4.6 billion in seigniorage revenue from the quarters so far.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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