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The US mint is,

coolestcoolest Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
in my opinion, offering about 1,000 products too many.

Is there no limit to the different types of coins they will produce?

This must be some kind of record for number of designs issued.


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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe there are different kinds of collectors? image

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  • CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    Actually, they significantly cut their product offerings.
  • EggerEgger Posts: 422 ✭✭


    << <i>Actually, they significantly cut their product offerings. >>



    they just cut the wrong ones though
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...i received one of the thousands of their products today, as a matter of fact, my 2011 NA bucks just showed up! image
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  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Looks like collecting new issues by type effectively ended with the 20th century ! ! ! image

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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082
    Congress dictates much of this.
  • BGBG Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    acting similar to how things were prior to 1930. That's when things changed dramatically.

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    On April 21st, 1930 President Herbert Hoover vetoed, his first, H.R. 2029 a bill to authorize the coinage of silver 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase.

    The veto message was laid before the House, referred to the Committee on the Coinage, Weights and Measures, and printed as H.R. Doc. No. 3. The House sustained the veto on April 22, 1930 by a vote of 96 yeas to 244 nays. An attempt to override the veto was made by the committee which originally approved the measure and engineered it through the House. Representatives from sections of the country where celebrations similar to the Gadsden Purchase anniversary are in prospect and who wanted similar measures passed also voted with the committee.



    I've alway's felt that change is good. image
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
    I think The RCM holds the record for most varieties of coins available at any given time.........image
  • The mint has basically copied the US Postal Service, in an attempt to make money off of collectors directly. It may work in the short run, but an oversaturation of products will eventually turn collectors off (if it hasn't already). I did not mind adding 2 or 3 dollars each year to my collection, then working on upgrading my other stuff. Now I must add about almost 40 to keep my sets updated. position a and b, business strikes, satin finish, 4 presidents a year, plus sacagawea. Oh yeah, lets not forget FDI, first strikes, proofs, varieties, and who knows what else they think of. It can really eat into a collectors upgrading budget and storage space
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have just stopped buying from the mint. There was never any problem with the quality of the coins I received (OK, one ASE I sent back), but the cost and proliferation has become ludicrous. Cheers, RickO
  • It's jobs in America. If there were less to produce then they would start laying people off. Not saying that it is best for the hobby, but it is good in a way for the economy.
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's jobs in America. If there were less to produce then they would start laying people off. Not saying that it is best for the hobby, but it is good in a way for the economy. >>

    I'd be even better if they bought their packaging materials from US Manufacturers. image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The U.S. Mint is...fine by me
    Buy what makes you happy.
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Modern crap image
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are in a win win situation.
    If they want to sell out on any given item, just delay shipping and announce
    a limited quantity and everyone on coin forums will buy whatever is offered in
    whatever quantity they can get and resell them to other coin forum members for
    a huge profit only to repeat this over and over with every new "limited quantity"
    item the mint want to sell.
    Easy
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • Who offers more commemorative coins?

    - United States
    - France
    - Germany
    - Canada

    So, it could be worse.

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  • The Mint does have a few really good ones intermixed with the mediocre ones. And, they're improving on some.

    The 2009 Ultra-High Relief Saint Gaudens $20 was really nice. I think they really delivered on that one.

    I have to confess collecting annual proof sets. Modern coins seem designed specifically for proofs. While circulation strikes look flat, lifeless, busy, and largely devoid of abstract symbolism in favor of concrete, intellectually simplified images (cows and mountain ranges over Lady Liberty and wreaths), the proof versions in their deep cameo have great depth of field and a certain beauty of their own. And, the Lincoln cent, with the new shield design, is a welcome return to classical abstract symbolism, a dramatic improvement over the Lincoln memorial building, which when I was a kid looked to me like a jail.
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