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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 4869604, member: 68"]I'm still amazed this scam went on so long. The coins in cars reflect the coins in circulation except there are higher chances for smaller coins and smaller denominations. Half dollars in scrap car should be rare and they were sending back shipping containers full of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this country you'd have to fin a $100 bill in every car to pay for the workers to look for coins and then clean them. Almost all of these coins from the 10,000,000 cars per year being scrapped end up melted in the steel. While this number of scrapped coins may seem staggering it is nothing compared to the number that end up in the garbage stream or lost on the ground. Fires and floods consume the most US coins. Many more coins are intentionally destroyed by being tossed somewhere or used as supplies. Pennies for instance are much cheaper than washers even though they cost the government about 3c each to make. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you don't believe the extent of this destruction just try to find something like a 1971 quarter in pocket change. If that's too easy for you try finding one in VF condition that doesn't look like it's been through the Battle of the Marne.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 4869604, member: 68"]I'm still amazed this scam went on so long. The coins in cars reflect the coins in circulation except there are higher chances for smaller coins and smaller denominations. Half dollars in scrap car should be rare and they were sending back shipping containers full of them. In this country you'd have to fin a $100 bill in every car to pay for the workers to look for coins and then clean them. Almost all of these coins from the 10,000,000 cars per year being scrapped end up melted in the steel. While this number of scrapped coins may seem staggering it is nothing compared to the number that end up in the garbage stream or lost on the ground. Fires and floods consume the most US coins. Many more coins are intentionally destroyed by being tossed somewhere or used as supplies. Pennies for instance are much cheaper than washers even though they cost the government about 3c each to make. If you don't believe the extent of this destruction just try to find something like a 1971 quarter in pocket change. If that's too easy for you try finding one in VF condition that doesn't look like it's been through the Battle of the Marne.[/QUOTE]
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