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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CAM2, post: 2494494, member: 80799&quot;]What value does our country have after we outsourced 90% of our jobs to china?</p><p><br /></p><p>China has the largest copper mine in the world yet we have a problem minting pennies made of 90% copper like they used to be made....</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint said US pennies have a 25 year circulation life...IMO all pennies older than 25 years should be recycled automatically...</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes I do......Theres valuable silver and stuff being held up in lowlevel collections that have slightly above relevant value due to minting errors mixed in and the hope theyll be rich.....</p><p><br /></p><p>People are reluctant to put anything of value back into the system and time seems to make things of slight value go up....Demand drives prices up too.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the mint makes crappier money now than they ever did that would make people relinquish their lowlevel collections and put them back into circulation where theres a 75% chance the govt gets to reclaim the more valuable coins..</p><p><br /></p><p>The other day I bought a 1979 uncirculated coin set for face value because two coins have toned naturally because the seal a meal packaging they used didnt work too well..Im sure that person paid atleast $10 bucks back then for that set..</p><p><br /></p><p>I also got a 1986 .999% Ellis Island Silver dollar proofset with Liberty clad half dollar for face value too cause the silver coin is tarnished slightly....</p><p><br /></p><p>Did they not pass a law in alot of states where its illegal to melt scrap US coin currency to make a profit off of unless you live in a different country like Canada?...Yet it isnt illegal to turn US currency into jewelery and sell the currency for a profit...</p><p><br /></p><p>27 years ago I had a 1934c $500.00 bill I found in a picture frame in a dumpster in front of a home where the owner had died and the family filed his belongings in a pretty interesting way....I took it to the bank to see if it was real...</p><p><br /></p><p>The bank knew me because I was a customer....A few weeks went by and the US Treasury Dept sent me a formal letter trying to force me to relinquish my $500.00 bill based on an act passed by John F Kennedy that wasnt enacted until 1969;- 5 years after his death.....</p><p><br /></p><p>What does that tell you?....That most certainly was the US Treasury dept trying to get me to not profit off of the bill which I did and received 6 times its value based on its condition which was folded once and had two thumbtack or pinholes in it...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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