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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 304446, member: 68&quot;]There are a couple of faulty premises here and some definitions are needed to answer the questions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Older coins were rarely recalled when they went out of circulation.&nbsp; They normally died with a whimper rather than a bang.&nbsp; The coins would either be inflated away or would be replaced without a recall.&nbsp; Usually they would be left as worthless or nearly so.&nbsp; Many would simply be thrown away.&nbsp; Silver and gold wouldn&#039;t be disposed of but these weren&#039;t always recalled either and many of the coins would end up being sold as bullion and then might end up as scrap or in collections.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In modern times it&#039;s much more likely that coins are recalled.&nbsp; But this won&#039;t happen when the value of the coins erode away.&nbsp; There&#039;s usually too much cost associated with transportation and processing to make the retrieval of base metal coins profitable.&nbsp; Even if the coins were recalled few people would bother to round up a few cents worth of coins to haul off to the bank.&nbsp; Recalls affect the higher denomination coins especially in currency changes and the like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To get an idea of what&#039;s cheap look at poundage.&nbsp; The worst stuff to have in poundage to find a buyer is the obsolete mexican fractional pesos from the &#039;60&#039;s and &#039;70&#039;s.&nbsp; Canadian cents are a turnoff. British one penny and half penny coins as well as the bronze French coins from the &#039;70 will make for a hard sell.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You might be ble to go to some country and load a truck pretty cheaply but often you&#039;ll find the difficulty isn&#039;t so much the cost of the coins in the load but finding any of the coins to start a load.&nbsp; Coins are simply destroyed or used for other purposes and can become very difficult to find after a short while.&nbsp; People destroy coins by the boatload now days.&nbsp; In the late &#039;80&#039;s to mid-&#039;90&#039;s there was a boat that made a regular run between Japan and South America bringing in cars and finished goods and returning to Japan with loads of coins for recycling.&nbsp; Even though a coin is inexpensive it can be caused by lack of emand rather than an enormous supply.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it this way;&nbsp; if all you ever see are people picking through accumulations forold coins then what do you suppose they have at home?&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong because fortunately there are some collectors for the newer coins now days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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