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MINTS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE COLLUDE

Collectors have accused government owned mints of becoming too commercial due to the many non-circulating legal tender commemoratives and other products that appear to be ever increasing in numbers.

Births, deaths, and coronations are among the subjects that have appeared on coins since early modern history. Today mints issue circulating as well as non-circulating legal tender commemorative coins either as a novelty to be sold to

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