Posted 05/14/2005 07:47 am
Apparently they also make a *sincere* effort to try and find out what collectors like and produce it. Remember their $8 coin with the Polar Bear that also had an 8 on one of the legs? Those 8's were there because the Chinese believe it to be a lucky number. So you sell coins to people who like wild-life motiffs and Chinese coin collectors who like 8's. It was a brilliant idea and I hope it worked out for them.
The U.S Mint already has one strike against them with so many people heading into the Darkside and they have a second strike against them competing with the Royal Mints, who apparently, actually know what they are doing. Now what's going to happen if Mum steps down and William takes over the throne instead of Charles? Here the The Royal Mints will have a new figure head, after some 60 years and it will be someone that people, so it seems, pretty much like. That might be strike three for the U.S Mint.
The U.S Mint already has one strike against them with so many people heading into the Darkside and they have a second strike against them competing with the Royal Mints, who apparently, actually know what they are doing. Now what's going to happen if Mum steps down and William takes over the throne instead of Charles? Here the The Royal Mints will have a new figure head, after some 60 years and it will be someone that people, so it seems, pretty much like. That might be strike three for the U.S Mint.
