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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jezzer, post: 959486, member: 26162&quot;]I just asked the bank teller in my family.&nbsp; She says the Feds do not remove the coins (Ikes or SBAs) from circulation at least from the bank branch she works at.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I was watching a tech show on the History Channel earlier this summer and they were going on about the coin sorting machines in this particular episode.&nbsp; Apparently after the armored truck companies pick up the coins from the coin sorter machines - which are found at many supermarkets and megastores - they take the coins to their secure sorting facilities.&nbsp; The coins that are damaged physically or are outside of an error range for their weight are rejected from the sorting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the first reject the coins that are not physically damaged are put through a much smaller and slower sorting machine.&nbsp; IF the coins fail the second sorting process they are combined with the physically damaged coins and sent back to the mint for exchange on face value - <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t121375/#post958497" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t121375/#post958497"><u>as robbudo stated above.</u></a>&nbsp; I freaking love the History Channel for stuff like this!</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from the coin sorting companies I think that we as collectors are the next largest source of removing coinage/currency from circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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