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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2613471, member: 76863&quot;]It&#039;s not because the metals are too expensive to use, you actually could use them if the metals were extremely expensive.&nbsp; It&#039;s the population and the amount of wealth.&nbsp; There simply isn&#039;t enough metal for the world to be using it anymore and even the Romans had base metal coins.&nbsp; In 1917 there were approximately 92 million dimes minted, in 2015 there were approximately 3 billion dimes minted for circulation. Same thing for quarters you go from a 30 something millionish mintage to a couple billion in 2015 and its been that way for a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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