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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3569890, member: 101855&quot;]Some years ago some one figured out that it would cost you over $35,000 a year to keep up with all the stuff the mint issues. I am sure that amount has not gone down. You are free to collect anything you want, but if you want every new thing, that is a big pill to swallow. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know what you mean about wanting new stuff to collect. I was a collector in the 1960s when the JFK Half Dollar was the story of the decade. Aside from the clad coinage, the Ike Dollar was the next thing in 1971. New things moved like glaciers. Then came the Washington commemorative half dollar and the Los Angeles Olympic coins, and opened the flood gates. </p><p><br /></p><p>The trouble is it’s feast or famine. The mint has either done as little as possible or gone on overload. The same thing happened in the 1930s when there were too many commemorative half dollars. The abuses finally suspended the series in 1954. </p><p><br /></p><p>I only wish that we could land somewhere in the middle, but with computer and laser generated dies, coming up with new coin designs is almost too easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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