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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doug21, post: 1375180, member: 5650&quot;]Check out these mintage figures !</p><p><br /></p><p>For most of the zinc era production seems to be around 10 billion a year ( some years at up to15 billion).</p><p><br /></p><p>However after the year 2000 production seems to have dropped to only 5-6 billion a year.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.bestcoin.com/lincoln-cent-mintage-two.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bestcoin.com/lincoln-cent-mintage-two.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestcoin.com/lincoln-cent-mintage-two.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many people throw them away, esp. kids, I won&#039;t pick them up....but some throw them right in the garbage just like they were a 5 cent deposit pop can.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick estimate is 300 billion Zincoln cents have been made.....or about 1,000 per person since production began. add in tens of billions of nickels in the last few decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are penny dishes responsible for needing so many less pennies ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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