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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 2082095, member: 41863&quot;]Oh poor poor mint. First off they shouldnt be &#039;making&#039; anything off of coining OUR money. Secondly if it only costs a small percentage over to make a cent, how much does it cost to make a quarter that doesnt use 25 times the materials of a cent? Or how about a dime that uses the least amount of raw materials of all the coins? What about half dollars that have 4 times the raw materials of a cent, but 50 times its purchasing power? </p><p><br /></p><p>I dont think you need to worry about the hooplah of it costing us money to make coins. They are still depositing &#039;seignorage&#039; back into the coffers, so money is still being made from this process. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just have a problem with the accountability of exactly how much &#039;profit&#039; is being made off of our coins. And no I am not talking about whats penned down in the yearly reports, I want to know the true excess that is available, because I have a feeling that some of that money goes to &#039;black projects&#039; due to its ambiguity and how easily the real number can be hidden. </p><p><br /></p><p>Same with dollar bills. I guarantee you we wouldnt be printing $1 bills if it cost us money. So that leads me to believe that the cost associated with making a dollar is some percentage of the face value. So even if it cost $.99 to make every dollar, nothing changes on the larger denominations except the numbers and the face, the process is the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>So how much money is instantly conjured into thin air by this process? Where is all the purchasing power of this phenomenon going.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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