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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinCorgi, post: 26521482, member: 88934&quot;]More anecdotal nonsense...</p><p><br /></p><p>Lately (say over the last couple of months) I&#039;ve been receiving in my change significantly more dimes and significantly fewer nickels and cents than previously. Quarters are holding steady.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 thoughts on this...</p><p>1) Penny shortage (whether real or imagined) and humanity&#039;s predilection for being lazy has driven cashiers to the point of just being too lazy to count out the exact change - &quot;do what ever it takes to minimize mathing and minimizing the number of coins they have to pick up&quot;.</p><p>2) Mintage of nickels is way down this year compared to previous years??? Is this true? So the real crisis is a shortage of nickels!!!</p><p>3) Rounding neither increases nor decreases the average number of coins received in change. I have a spreadsheet where I worked this out...but it&#039;s coming up on&nbsp; nap time so bugger off and be quiet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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