Originally Posted by jamesteroh

Not sure if they could legally get away with it. The US Mint is not a bank. You are making a purchase with the card, just happens that purchase is a box of coins. It's like going into a coin shop and purchasing coins, they aren't going to treat that as a cash advance.

I am surprised some credit card issuers haven't tried that. Problem is they are making a pretty penny in transaciton fees and the card holders will just go to the competitions card.