Unlike PageOnce, Mint doesn't currently have mileage tracking as a service, though that functionality will be added soon.

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It's just that the Mint doesn't have the resources to make it into coins due to outsourcing and budget cuts decades ago.

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The blank planchets are not made at the Mint, which hasn't had the production capacity for this stage of the minting process since the budget cuts of 1981.

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The firm will also need to reassure people their eyeballs won't be blitzed with advertising, which is Google's preferred way to mint money.

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But you don't have to win the planet's arguably most prestigious race to make a mint.

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"It's going to take years to get us back to where we were, " said Vourderis, standing over hundreds of mint-green quarters that were oxidized so severely that banks won't accept them without first having them cleaned in bleach.

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"Putting in a herb garden would be one of the easiest things because they love lavender, chives, rosemary and mint and you've got the advantage that herb gardens don't take a lot of looking after and you can use them for food, " he added.

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And if you're looking for designer homeware you won't want to miss Paul Smith's Mayfair store (9 Albemarle Street) or Mint (70 Wigmore Street, Marylebone).

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The Mint's is an ascending minor scale a choice I don't understand, as it sounds slightly ominous.

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