While the mint has confessed that due to the Covid-19 virus they have produced less, I'm not seeing any coin shortages in Montana, but then I only go to town once a month. Eh, eh, eh.
I live in a small town in Eastern North Carolina and there are signs on the outside of stores. First sign, patrons and employees are required to wear masks by order of the governor and Due to shortages of coins, we request payment with check, check card, or credit card. I doesn't work. Customers are not wearing masks and the cashier told me that customers pay with cash.
Wrong Ted but I get who you are referring to. I was talking about the Ted who lived in his mountain shack making bombs.
Oh, that Ted. Well, while I've heard first hand stories about how he would catch a ride with the local mail carrier and come to Marysville (my closest town, although a ghost town) and sleep overnight on the floor of the only bar/restaurant in town [Marysville House], but that was before my time. I was associated with the case though, as I was a Detective with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department when he was caught, so we had involvement due to his bombing in Sacramento. We (Sacramento) actually got the cabin (shipped to warehouse by FBI) but never got the pleasure (or displeasure) of seeing it, or Ted.