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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1291843, member: 22143&quot;]The mint is not a company and thus by definition, it is not a corporate monopoly.&nbsp;&nbsp; In order to understand what the Mint you will have to go back to the US Constitution.&nbsp;&nbsp; Specifically Article 1, Section 8 states: (among other things) Thus, only the US Congress has the power to issue coinage for the United States.&nbsp; In order to facilitate this, Congress created the US Mint in 1792.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So this isn&#039;t a matter of capitalism.&nbsp; (which doesn&#039;t exist now in the USA anyway,&nbsp; but different topic) It&#039;s a Constitutional issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; For this to be changed the Constitution would have to be amended and this isn&#039;t likely.&nbsp;&nbsp; Could the Congress privatize the Mint&#039;s operations?&nbsp;&nbsp; Possibly, but I don&#039;t see this ever happening.&nbsp; It would burn a lot of political capital to get it done and I don&#039;t see anyone willing to sign up for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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