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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 989245, member: 66&quot;]Frankly the Mint can&#039;t win.&nbsp; If they make a lot of a particular issue the price falls on the secondary market and the collectors whine that the Mint ripped them off by charging too much and flooding the market so there was no secondary support.&nbsp; (And if they had charged less wouldn&#039;t that have resulted in even mor being sold an an even worse aftermarket?)</p><p><br /></p><p>If the mintage is low then they sell out quickly and the collectors whine that they didn&#039;t get a chance to buy it at issue price and now they&#039;ll have to pay much more to the &quot;rip off dealers&quot;.&nbsp; The only ones who don&#039;t whine are those who were lucky enough to have been able to buy a supply from the mint, and they are perfectly willing to play the part of the &quot;rip off dealer&quot; and they think the Mint did a great job.....This time.&nbsp; And they continue to think so until they miss out on the next hot item.&nbsp; Then they want the Mint&#039;s hide.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Remember it was Congress that decided we must have these things.&nbsp; I still think the Mint would be very happy NOT to have to make them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What company do you propose they give the money away too?&nbsp; The mint can still punch out blanks but they don&#039;t have the capability to create the strip anymore.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if they would even have the ability to punch out blanks of that size anymore.&nbsp; That&#039;s why they get all the Eagle blanks from outside suppliers[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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