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Old 09-16-2004, 06:02 PM  
foolio
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Originally posted by freeadultcontent
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.
plus the cost to DESIGN the new coin. No way you can tell me that is cheap.

Add up each of the 50 different quarters, the 4 different nickels and all the new paper money designs... that adds up greatly.
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