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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7578791, member: 105098&quot;]the U.S. doesn&#039;t really demonetize, it will &quot;discontinue&quot; coins though and they slowly disappear in circulation though. I think the trade dollar was demonetized for a period of time, and they did at some point demonetize foreign currency use in the united states, when the money supply was adequate, but as far as I know they just stop making things and start picking them up and not delivering them to banks in order to make them discontinued over time. the $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 notes were discontinued in 1969, last printed in 1945 and not seeing much use.&nbsp; most all coins that were discontinued though had a specific use, like postage purchase, which became obsolete in commerce as the cost of postage went up. no coin denomination has been discontinued since 1889 though, and that was the 3 cent nickel. it&#039;s literally only been done when nobody is using it anymore which may be the case for the half dollar, but it&#039;s not the case for the cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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