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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1359797, member: 66&quot;]They changed the required form of payment and then later added the surcharge.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Can you prove that?&nbsp; The order came form the Secretary of the Treasury and I&#039;m not aware of Obama ever saying a single thing about the dollars.&nbsp; More likely it was the bad press over the stockpile and the bills in Congress calling for their elimination rather than the President.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The production of the NA dollar is based on the production of the President dollars.&nbsp; You greatly reduce production of the Presidents it greatly reduces the production of the NA dollars as well</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because you didn&#039;t miss it, there is no such legislation.&nbsp; The law requires the coins to be struck and they will be struck, but it doesn&#039;t say how many have to be struck.&nbsp; So the Sec reduced the production down to just that needed for the mint sets and roll sets sold to collectors.&nbsp; About 3 to 6 million of each from each mint.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Better business sense from both a profit standpoint and from a standpoint of reducing the stockpile would have been to eliminate the dollar note instead.&nbsp; The only real effect this decision did was reduce government revenue by $300 million a year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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