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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;trogdor, post: 753888, member: 21943&quot;]Under the couch cushions, coin jars, trash, street, collectors, wishing wells, etc. Then there are all those that do need to be taken out of circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors and hoarders can be responsible for removing large numbers of coins from circulation sometimes, but I think more typically numismatists and hoarders are not impacting the supply too significantly. Then there are those coins (presidential dollars for ex) that are minted and never even make it into widespread circulation due to lack of demand. They sit in vaults while the mint continues to make more <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A fair number of people right now are sorting 95% copper cents from the copper plated zinc and hoarding away the copper cents as a hedge against inflation. I don&#039;t think there will be a penny shortage any time soon, but I do wonder if the mint will need to step up production to account for this in particular. When the base metal of the coin is worth more than its face value (as with the 95% copper cents, and silver coins back in the sixties) they quickly disappear from circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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