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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 581807, member: 68&quot;]Just delete b &amp; c and change it to; the coins go to many counting houses at the behest and under the control of the regional FED branches. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 2009 coins might never get into circulation or many of them might already be circulating in small regions where the economy is still strong. </p><p><br /></p><p>When they get released is dependent on how many coins got into storage in front of them.&nbsp; Say there were 2 billion nickels in storage and then the 2009&#039;s hit.&nbsp; All those in storage would be paid out before any of these were released.&nbsp; Any that went into storage later would que up and wait their turn after the 2009&#039;s.&nbsp; In real life it&#039;s a little more complicated because there isn&#039;t a single file line but twelve of them; each FED branch will store coins somewhere and they are supposed to rotate them.&nbsp; If 2009 dimes are going for big money there will probably be those with access.&nbsp; Also in real life it would probably be inconvenient to ship all these coins to a central location so they will likely be scattered at least a little and this too might interfere with issuing them in the proper order.&nbsp; I doubt they&#039;d ship coins to Indianapolis from Chicago just because Chicago had coins in storage longer if they already have a stockpile in Indy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint stores a lot of coins as well ( I believe on premises) but these are typically new coin.&nbsp; When the stockpiles start going down they&#039;ll soon be minting coin again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are some considerations that could drastically affect future production.&nbsp; Inflation would further raise the cost of the cent and dollar bill.&nbsp; If the dollar coin actually starts circulating there would be a large structural decrease in the demand for quarters since the dollar would replace piles of quarters.&nbsp; This could cause quarter demand to fall to as low as 500 million per year while as many as 15 billion are in storage.&nbsp; Rather than maintain a 30 year supply they might melt large numbers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There might be a very interesting ten years coming for &quot;pocket change&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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