Question. How Many US Coins Are "Illegal" To Own?

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in that case the mint should have kept their mouths shut and just taken the coiins and destroyed them.

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You can't blame the crime on the victim, it just doesn't work.

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Originally posted by biokemist6

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Originally posted by just carl

OUR Mint making coins with OUR tax money

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Actually, the Mint receives no tax revenue- it is entirely self sufficient. The US Mint is just about the only government entity that turns a profit (last year ~$700 million)- through seignorage and numismatic sales profits. After expenses, the Mint profit is returned to the Treasury and pumped back into general revenue.

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However, there is a slight bit, very slight bit, of expendarues not listed in the Mints profit margin. Please check on such things as Utility bills for the Mints offices and other structiures. Now there is the maintenance of said sturctures such as window cleaning, furnace maintenance, landscaping, etc. Of course someone pays for the movement of the currency and coins in trucks, cars, trains, boats, planes. The delivery of metals used in the production of coins. Then there is the small item of salaries for all such employees, their medical and life insurance premiums. What about office equipment such as desks, filing cabinets, paper, pens, chairs, etc. The list goes on and on and on.
If YOU own a factory that produced, say brooms, YOU would be the one paying for all of the above mentioned items and a lot more. ALL profits from your broom sales would go for such expendatures. Not just for the wood and brissels at the end of the broom. Please check on WHO is responsible for these expendatures with the Mint.
Just my opinion of course.