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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;steve63, post: 2545659, member: 76463&quot;]That&#039;s true, especially now.&nbsp; When I started collecting as a kid back in the late 1970s, it was not that hard to find S coins in circulation here in the East.&nbsp; They weren&#039;t as plentiful as plains for sure, but I was still able to fill up my entire first Whitman penny book (1941-1974) with pennies I pulled from circulation with the sole exception of 1955-S which I had to buy at a flea market to complete the collection.&nbsp; I did that in just few months back in 1979.&nbsp; Shortly after that I stopped collecting for many years and just got back into it again about a year ago.&nbsp; One thing I noticed this time around is that it&#039;s so much harder to find S coins than it was 35 years ago.&nbsp; My theory is that pennies just don&#039;t circulate as much as they used to.&nbsp; Between increased used of credit cards, debit cards and &quot;rounding&quot; policies where businesses just don&#039;t bother dealing with cents anymore, I think pennies just don&#039;t get the circulation they used to 35 years ago, and the less circulation that takes place the less chance any individual cent has of making it all the way across the country over some period of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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