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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1821959, member: 23692&quot;]There are millions and millions of them still in Canadian pockets, drawers, boxes, and bags.&nbsp; Since the stores really don&#039;t take them ... they round up or down to the nearest nickel, they just don&#039;t circulate like they did before becuase you don&#039;t get them in change.&nbsp; The people that say that they are finding it hard to find them are those that go to the banks trying to buy boxes of them.&nbsp; Many churches, schools, and non-profit orgs urged people to give them their old pennies so that they could weed out the copper ones .. but copper hadn&#039;t been used for them for decades, just plated crap.&nbsp; I would imagine that bordering states are getting a few more in circulation because the Canadian shoppers slip in a few &#039;useless&#039; pennies from back home when they are across the border.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that the Mint melting old copper will have any effect whatsoever on prices and scarcities ... there hasn&#039;t been from all the scrap silver melts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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