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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 25769226, member: 68&quot;]I would have had to find a discounted ticket but I believe they got that cheap, it certainly wouldn&#039;t have been first class.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was a lot of fun and I still have a bunch of the interesting and high grade ones. There are a lot of insights to be gleaned about how these coins have been used.&nbsp; It would be great to have a random sampling of what&#039;s in circulation today.&nbsp; I wager the old coins would be much more heavily worn than most of those I redeemed.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In another twenty years almost all the old coins will be gone or in deplorable condition probably.&nbsp; This would depend a lot on whether the coins are allowed to sit in storage.&nbsp; They are not allowed to in this country.&nbsp; All of the coins are&nbsp; circulating except those sitting in coin shops and collections throughout the world but then some are brought back.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the people who buy quantities of these buy at a steep discount before a vacation to that country.&nbsp; In some countries&nbsp; it&#039;s very handy having high denomination coins because there are&nbsp; machines for payments and vending.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I often wonder what percentage of coins find their way home, are discarded in the trash, or eventually end up in poundage in various countries.&nbsp; Of course the lower the denomination the less likely it can find its way home.&nbsp;&nbsp; I here stories of people being able to get US silver in Europe very cheap so it seems unlikely a lot of cu/ ni clad is getting home.&nbsp; As time goes by a dollar just isn&#039;t worth what it used to be so the rate of redemption is continually dropping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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