For you accounting majors, $30 is the price of the strikes, not because of the gold-plating alone. The dies cost $660 apiece. There are two sides. Usually Anchor eats this cost because it can amortize it over a long run of strikes and build it into the cost. So, we have $1320 for the dies, plus the cost of silver, brass and gold.
By my calculation, 50 times 30 is 1500. I think the cost of each strike is actually more than $30 but that's the price O'Sheas is paying.
However, I do look with some amusement at the $75 per night per room. It's December in Vegas, the slowest two weeks of the year. (It picks up later for the NFR) Rooms are very inexpensive all over town. Flamingo can say the room is $50 or $200 but it's still an empty room if we aren't there. How much do you use in the room for water, linens, electricity, etc. Sounds like the $1600 hammer for the government to me.