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I have watched the learning channel and the discovery channel shows on the US mints. Coin production is super cheap per unit. In the neighborhood of fractions of a cent each.The only real cost of production past the blanks cost is the time and cost to make the die's. After that it is just standard run of the mill stamping like normal.
Currency is being decirculated every day by the banks, both coins and notes. Coins however seem to last an insane amount of time in circulation.
The US mints are doing just fine and the collectors more than pay for the cost of die production. So do not fret and think that this is costing us shit.
Oh and since it was brought up, out of the circulated coins (penny through quarter) the nickle has the most expensive blank, yet it still costs under a penny for the product.
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