Dave, I appreciate that you went through with what you said about getting the information directly from the Nevada Gaming Commission pertaining to HSP Strikes. I sat back and waited until today just to see if the people who posted against what you and I had said would come back to say that they were wrong in what they said about this change to HSP Strikes, that it was the decision of the Nevada Gaming Commission only as they stated! As we had stated before, the NGC only approves or denies the requests that are put forth in front of their board, and the Sunshine Mint through the approval of the NGC, mints what the Casino's want minted and approved by the NGC! If the Casino's want to cut their cost and increase their profit, this is the real reason that all of this is taking place with the change to HSP Strikes. As Norman Clem stated, "We as the collectors, sellers and players for these strikes were not even approached to vote on this change to HSP or changing the strikes to $20 and keeping them .999 Fine Silver!" I don't believe that the Casino's have to come to us as collectors to get our opinion, but it would have been nice to have some input for all of the money that we as collectors of the SILVER STRIKERS CLUB spend in their Casino's!

Jerry Sacco SS#673