The reason for it, as I understand, is to make the mint money. Those new quarters that everyone and their mother is collecting? That makes the mint money. If it's in circulation, the mint doesn't actually make anything from it. If it's "bought" and removed from circulation, the mint makes money.
Honestly, it all seems kinda hocus-pocus-ey to me, and I don't understand why it would work that way. But, that's what I've been told ...
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Date: 2005-07-15 01:36 am (UTC)Honestly, it all seems kinda hocus-pocus-ey to me, and I don't understand why it would work that way. But, that's what I've been told ...