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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1152891, member: 18157&quot;]Perhaps, as <b>Krispy </b>noted, I&#039;m reading a bit past the OP&#039;s original question. Whenever I see talk about the low mintage of current circulating coinage, it&#039;s most commonly asked in context of whether or not these coins have upward &quot;earnings&quot; potential due to their &quot;relatively&quot; low mintage numbers. Since the obvious answer in each case is &quot;no&quot;, I tried to think of ANY scenario where they actually could become great rarities...similar to the 1916d Mercury dime.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since, as the OP has observed, few 2011 dimes have been found in circulation (so far), it would make sense that the Federal Reserve hasn&#039;t issued many. If they haven&#039;t issued many, then they must still have them stored someplace. For these coins to become great rarities, the population would have to somehow be decimated. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I suppose if they were all loaded up on a ship and the ship sank in a violent storm...that could do it. Or if they were all stored in a large wooden warehouse with a lot of oily rags and kerosene lanterns about...that might do it, too. Both of those scenarios seem too &quot;18th Century&quot; to have much probability of happening. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the 21st century, only the US Congress has such immediate, destructive power to wipe out that many coins! With one mighty swipe of the pen, Congress could mandate a &quot;great meltdown&quot; of current stocks; leaving only the population of circulating coins to the collectors. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Granted...it SEEMS unlikely anything like this would happen, but we will probably take some of our lower denomination coins out of circulation at some point (not even gumball machines take pennies, anymore!). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That process would probably begin by stopping production of the obsolete coins and reclaiming (melting) the currently unreleased coins. If that should happen, when very few of the newer coins (such as the 2011 dime) have been released, it&#039;s &quot;possible&quot; that some of these coins could become scarce.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>It&#039;s like &quot;musical chairs&quot;...you know the music is gonna stop...you just don&#039;t know WHEN.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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