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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1253957, member: 18157&quot;]I think I may have mentioned this in another thread sometime back, but it bears repeating (imho)...</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than allowing us to make change in incredibly minute detail, <b>the penny, nickel, and dime have no commercial value at all</b>...and the entire purpose of the US Mint is...&quot;to produce coins for commerce&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t believe me, try the same experiment I did. I had a Saturday free and wanted to find ANY store that had ANYTHING I could buy for 25¢. I tried Wallgreen&#039;s, 7-11, Sam&#039;s Club, Walmart, Safeway, Shopper&#039;s Food Warehouse, Home Depot, Lowe&#039;s...nothing.The Manager at Walmart (a friend of mine) search their online store catalog...still nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, you can buy some generic cookies, pull one out of the box, and say &quot;Look! I bought this for 5¢&quot;...but you can&#039;t buy just one cookie at the checkout. You can&#039;t go to McDonald&#039;s and buy just one (1) Chicken McNugget. :eating: I did find one (1) gumball machine where I could get a couple of Chicklets for 25¢...but that was it!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>So, what does this have to do with the OP...&quot;Buying boxes of coins&quot;? ...I&#039;m getting to that.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Most folks have said (myself included) that it&#039;s a dumb idea to buy modern, low mintage coins because they&#039;re just being hoarded and will never be worth more than they are today.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still believe that to be true...<span style="color: #ff0000"><b>HOWEVER</b></span>, there&#039;s one scenario that could throw that whole way of thinking out the window. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s 2008 and folks are turning in coins so fast that the Federal Reserve banks get no requests for new coins. Since there are no new orders, the Mint produces just enough coins to keep their employees occupied. The Fed gets these coins, but can&#039;t distribute them because of the <b>damn coin collectors</b>. They try releasing some through Puerto Rico, but the Numismatic crowd catches on quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Fed increases their orders for coins in 2010 and 2011 so they don&#039;t make that same mistake again, but they still can&#039;t get rid of the 2009 coins without widespread hoarding...so they just release the 2010s and 2011s. In the meantime, it&#039;s now 2013 and Congress comes to their senses. They decide to <span style="color: #ff0000"><b>eliminate 1¢, 5¢, and 10¢ coins</b></span>. Now that the 2009 coins are no longer legal tender, the Fed can&#039;t release them...so they&#039;re destroyed. The only 2009 nickels and dimes left are the few that actually made it into circulation...</p><p><br /></p><p>...and YOU have a whole BOX of them!!! :u*meY: <span style="color: #008000"><b><font size="7">Cha-CHING!!!</font></b></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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