I hear you, I do the same. been ordering since 2009 about 3 of everything that i order. it’s getting out of hand..except for those you are talking about and that is 5 that i order at a time…bull crap

Richard w. i agree with you,there are too many products and most of those are politically correct products.I do collect the ATB quarters,but this will be my last series of anything.The new coin designs are not appealing to me and a substantial raise in prices won’t help either.I think i’ll go back to collecting vintage coins.HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

Good analysis, K ROB. Obviously that is a downward spiral. Another approach would be to make less products so the demand is taken towards good products that can sell. Now interest is scattered across so many things that nothing gets the proper attention. Unless you’re a true numismatist the focus is lost. I bet they could cut out half the stuff in their catalog and almost nobody would notice. Unfortunately Congress comes up with things that “sound like a good idea at the time,” like the Innovation dollars, and the mint has to make them. At least the America the Beautiful quarters series is coming to an end–too bad they didn’t do the sole 2021 issue this year and finish it up. The State quarters series was a great idea, but like too many movie sequels they didn’t know when to stop.

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C-Q,i agree with you on that.and while they are at it,stop with the “gold “dollars,these are just taking up room in a warehouse.the new series of innovation dollars is a waste of my time because at my age i’ll not see the end of that one.HAVE A GREAT DAY.

The mint is required to be ‘revenue neutral’ in that its operations should be funded by its products – that includes all the regular circulation coins it makes, which in the case of pennies and nickels are actually manufactured at a loss (cost about 3 cents to make a penny and 7 cents for a nickel). When you make billions of these coins, these small losses add up, and so they take it out on the collectors to make up for it.

The real answer is to either stop making pennies (the biggest money-loser), or get congress to subsidize the losses on these coins.

Duane, that is true.i think the reason for the increase in prices is due to less customers over the last few years and the mint wanting to keep the same net profits.if a business loses customers like the mint has over the past years they either make better products to bring in more customers or raise prices,the mint has unfortunately chosen the latter which in turn will drive away more people.i have been a collector for four decades and this is about as bad as i’ve seen the mint in.

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Steve, Thanks for the post. Where did you get that information?