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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1256544, member: 29751&quot;]He never said they were &quot;melted&quot;.&nbsp; He said they were recalled and destroyed.&nbsp; Millions of Euro coins are removed from circulation by government banks every year and scrapped for metal.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how much that affects the total surviving mintages, but it is a known fact.&nbsp; In fact, I remember reading a story about how the Chinese had gotten their hands on this scrap metal, reworked the scrap into Euro coins, and then smuggled them back into the EU.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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