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Coins Lucrative For Postage Stamp Country

MANY COUNTRIES DON’T mint their own coins or print their own bank notes. These are farmed out to government or privately owned mints around the world. The contracts for physical currency can be lucrative and for that reason often encourage spirited bidding among competing coin and bank note producers.

Not every mint that coins money is interested in fulfilling contracts exclusively for circulation coinage. Some of these mints make

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