Kaiser,

I think the companies that sell silver blanks to the U.S. Mint should put a 50 percent “surcharge” above spot silver price to gouge the Mint like they gouge us on their silver products.Then the Mint might learn a good lesson. I have some silver rounds I’ll sell to the Mint for $75 an ounce when they can’t get silver from their contract companies… LOL.

NumisdudeTX

AKBob,
I also like that idea of issuing dollars with the original finish and cart wheel luster! They know how they did it.

I can see many mountains and mountain ranges. Up North is where there’s actually active volcanos. The airlines have to be careful they don’t fly thru the ash from it. It really is “drop dead gorgeous” up here. I never get tired of it either.

You’re right, the Mint thinks of us customers as “cash cows”, that’ll pay whatever they ask. For me, it only results in “death by a thousand cuts” or “death to the mint by a thousand price increases”!!

Well, as always, Good Luck ALL!!!

It’s the ‘other costs’ that are driving up the price of all precious metals (except for the comms). They’ve lost me until some sanity reigns again at the mint.

AKBob,

Great minds think alike! I simply think the mint considers us as a bunch of gullable fools who will gladly pay whatever they want for their products. I just cancelled all of my M/P dollar subscriptions because I refuse to pay $91 for a coin with less than $30 worth of Ag. I liked their reasoning for the ludicrous price hike: “due to the rise of spot price of silver ‘and other costs’…” I can guess what those other costs pertain to. I just heard JohnDeere is moving their operations to Mexico. I wonder how those small communities are going to cope without that manufacturing entity.

By the way AKBob, do you have any volcanic peaks around where you reside? I can imagine your views must be amazing!

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/

PS Additional tidbit: “The speed record was 39.245 mph (62.8 km/h), but that was crushed a few days later by another electric car that went 65.79 mph (105.88 km/h). By 1900, in the United States, 38% of US automobiles, 33,842 cars, were powered by electricity (40% were powered by steam, and 22% by gasoline).” From Vinfastauto website, article titled: “38% Of American Cars Were Electric In 1900 – What about in the future?”
PSS Benefit of doubt given(mulligan), as assuredly you
may have possibly known this? Or maybe you were referencing Cocoa-Cola?

https://catalog.usmint.gov/uncirculated-coin-set-subscription-MW.html

PS Maybe, just maybe(???), the 2023/2024 Unc Sets will hold value or maybe even go up in secondary market price eventually?
PSS People are still paying $100+ for 1 roll of 2024 D Jefferson Nickels. Not a bad return, on a $2.00 buy in!

Craig, you’re NOT alone! I cancelled my Subscriptions too! There’s no real good reason for the Mint to raise their pricing. The silver price isn’t much higher than the previous releases. I’m over the Mor/Pea silver dollars. They look phoney, matte finish just doen’t look right on these silver dollars. They look fake to me anyways. The mint should produce these so they look like “regular” uncirculated coins, like the bullion ASE’s or the original Mor/Pea dollars. I’m old school”, I don’t like changes to coins. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is my motto!! If there’s a way to mess things up, the mint usually finds it!!

Well, as always, Good Luck ALL!!!

Triple Spot. Something needs to cover the ever increasing “Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses” that the Mint incurs in regards to their newly implemented hiring requirements….