Comments on: US Mint to Slash Future Coin Products, Offers Last Chance Sale

By: Brian Workman

Brian Workman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:20:35 +0000

You start by eliminating the production of a product like GM did with Oldsmobile, and Chrysler with Plymouth. You then lay off thoudands of employees and give your upper staff big raises. When all is said and done, youblame the economy and the customers for your failures in poor business decisions made by you. No one asked me if I wanted to discontinue collecting any of the now discontinued coins?!

By: pitdogK9P

pitdogK9P — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:52:35 +0000

I’m glad Billy Ray thinks that there will be enough money for travel and to buy anything when the “New World Regime” gets through with taxing us. There won’t be coin or paper fiat money to do spit with. Right now if it cost a dime to get around the world I couldn’t get out of sight. …As my friend Murray M says “Gotta Love It”.
pitdogK9P

By: Michael Randall

Michael Randall — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:34:28 +0000

What ever happened to the concept of a dollar coin that would replace the bill? We’ve gone from Susan B to Sacajawea to the presidents…and still no working coin. Ineptness? Probably.

Make the damn thing the size of a half dollar, discontinue the unused half and you’re in business. All the old complaints eliminated like “It’s too close to the quarter” or the earlier “It’s too heavy”.

Now its going to be Americos. Past history says they will find a way to screw this up, too. Wanna bet?

By: URKiddinMee

URKiddinMee — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:15:48 +0000

hey, “Billy Ray,” let me get this straight . . .a New World Order universal currency is “not a bad thing?” Only if you’re George Soros betting big money on the demise of our once sovereign nation, it’s not! Get you head out of your ass and READ something besides comic books. (Maybe “Economics For dummies” for a start) Then try to learn to SPELL while you’re at it. “Aspirine?” what the hell is “aspirine?”

By: pitdogK9P

pitdogK9P — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:16:44 +0000

This is the second time I have seen Gresham’s Law in Operation since taking Money and Banking at IC in 1958. The first was the clad coinage. I have dropped the new coins on a hard surface to hear the sound they make. They sound exactly the the toy coins we were given for Christmas in the 1940s. Just how much did the government pay Mattel for their dies?
pitdogK9P

By: billy ray

billy ray — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:47 +0000

Please be prepared for the “Americo”.
This is the actual reason for this cutback.
It will take some time to process a “new type of currency”, especially in different types of denominations. Then there is the distribution factor of the new currency, which will take time. The government has been going after off shore and swiss bank type depositors (not always celebrities).
“Dollars for Americos” is coming. This is really not a bad thing as some may think but more of a lifetime change in this world economy. To travel shop,and not needing to exchange currencies in assorted countries and keep daily xchange rates in your head so you don’t overpay somewhere, well- I don’t need the aspirine.
Ducats are ducats.

By: Anthony J. Tisone Sr

Anthony J. Tisone Sr — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:21:21 +0000

1. Well it is about time you got rid of the junk.

2. I don’t see the need to make coins to people that nobody
cares about or even wants, that is a waste of Silver.

3. Give the people the right to buy coins first not the Dealer!!
Is seems the special interest get first crack at everything
but that is the way of our Great Country, the people come last.

4. Make Proof Silver Eages again!! If you stopped the junk you
will have plenty of Silver. People want them not junk coins.

5. The people should come first without question as the
Constitution Starts WE THE PEOPLE. Bush and bunch of
fools allow a law to pass to give dealers first crack at
the peoples money. That is criminal.

6. Dont see the New People in Washington will be any better!!

By: cme

cme — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:14:40 +0000

I don’t think all the protest e-mails will help. I suspect they are cutting back so that they can start doing more of the Amero coins.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:03:40 +0000

By the way, if you’re interested in writing a letter of protest to Edmund Moy (as I am in the process of doing), you can get a letter to him the following way:
Mr. Edmund Moy
Director of the United States Mint
Bureau of the Mint
1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220

I would strongly encourage all of you to write a letter and mail it in. If he truly responds to collectors then enough of us could do the trick in reversing some of this decision.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:18:06 +0000

Wow, talk about taking a hatchet to the problem when a scalpel would be fine. I can’t believe that they’re going to cut all the options for the platinum coins other than the 1oz version, all of the buffalo gold coins other than the 1oz version, etc. This is outrageous. Just trimming the bottom 75% of the above list would help out tremendously if they’re concerned with inventory issues. Basically the Mint is trying to force you to buy the Big Boys of coins or not at all. This would make me seriously consider not buying anything from the Mint in the future.