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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1910970, member: 37498"]Here's an idea:</p><p><br /></p><p>Since coins are so important to the 1% of the population who consider themselves coin collectors, let's just go ahead and pull ALL coins out of circulation and put them ALL in holders to preserve for the sake of future generations of collectors. Does that sound reasonable? No, of course not...</p><p><br /></p><p>If one is going to destroy a coin, then I believe using common coins from high mintage years is more appropriate, or less evil, or less damaging to collectors than using lower mintage years. Despite the high mintages, will coins from those years still become scarce in 100 or 200 or 500 years? Yes, eventually. But I believe they will always be reasonably easy for collectors to obtain. Can we protect and preserve every coin in existence? Should we even try? No, of course not...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1910970, member: 37498"]Here's an idea: Since coins are so important to the 1% of the population who consider themselves coin collectors, let's just go ahead and pull ALL coins out of circulation and put them ALL in holders to preserve for the sake of future generations of collectors. Does that sound reasonable? No, of course not... If one is going to destroy a coin, then I believe using common coins from high mintage years is more appropriate, or less evil, or less damaging to collectors than using lower mintage years. Despite the high mintages, will coins from those years still become scarce in 100 or 200 or 500 years? Yes, eventually. But I believe they will always be reasonably easy for collectors to obtain. Can we protect and preserve every coin in existence? Should we even try? No, of course not...[/QUOTE]
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