FEDERAL NEWS RADIO INTERVIEW WITH MINT DIRECTOR ED MOY

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The E-Sylum: Volume 14, Number 2, January 9, 2011, Article 12

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO INTERVIEW WITH MINT DIRECTOR ED MOY

Federal News Radio did an interview this week with outgoing Mint Director Ed Moy, and it quotes The E-Sylum. Check it out. Follow the links to listen to the complete interview. Here are some excerpts from the transcript. -Editor

The workforce at the Mint is a great example of a passion for or a calling to public service, said Moy. "Many of our Mint employees have 30 to 45 years experience. Once they get to the Mint, they absolutely love it and they are passionate about what they do and they want to do that for the rest of their lives." Moy invited listeners to visit the Mint and take the public tours in Philadelphia and Denver, and "just say Ed Moy sent ya'."

With that much commitment, why resign as the director? Moy said his five year term ends in August and he felt the need to "start thinking about what comes next, and I just had an opportunity to check off something from my bucket list which is to work for a rapidly growing, publicly held company."

Moy takes with him a proven talent for turning a profit.

Before 1999, he said, the most amount of change made to most coins was only to reflect the year the coin was minted. During his tenure, he increased revenues from $2.3 billion to a record $4 billion and increased profits from $350 million to over $1 billion.

Moy gave huge credit for that to the popularity of the state quarters. "With the fifty state quarter program," explained Moy, "we probably made 300 percent more quarters than what would normally be needed in the economy and that brought about six and a half billion dollars of profit that went directly to the taxpayers."

And that was one quarter at a time.

"The most fascinating thing about Director Moy," according to David Ganz, a former president of the American Numismatic Association in a coinbooks.com interview, "is that as a kid he worked in his parent's Chinese restaurant and as a cashier he used to go through the cash draw every night and pick out coins for his coin collection."

Moy said the job was part of what was expected in his family.

Yup, I grew up in a restaurant and in a Chinese family, you have the family man the cash register because that's who you trusted with the money, and as a bored kid, I used to just go through the change. And what I noticed was all the different designs. It could be the same denomination but you'd have an Indian Head penny or a Lincoln penny, or a Lincoln penny with wheat on the back or the Lincoln Memorial on the back and that's how I got started in my collection. And this is how great of a country we are. I did that when I was ten years old. Forty years later, I could never imagine I'd become the director of the U.S. Mint.

To read the complete article, see: Big change in store for the director of the U.S. Mint (www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=15&sid=2224070)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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