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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2753060, member: 10461&quot;]I think y&#039;all are right.&nbsp; The future of physical money is in doubt and the 21st century may see the end of it.&nbsp; Maybe not in my lifetime, but in my children&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I already am to the point where I might use cash once or twice a month, and coins not at all.&nbsp; I simply let my change accumulate until the jar is full and I then I take it to the CoinStar.&nbsp; I seldom use vending machines and those take paper dollars or even plastic now.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a numismatist, the impending doom of coins as a medium of exchange used to make me sad, until I realized it has no bearing on my collecting at all.&nbsp; After all, I&#039;m not spending tetradrachms or denarii on my hobby (though I&#039;m occasionally <i>buying</i> them).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Money comes and money goes, and the idea of what constitutes money has evolved over 2,700 years and will continue to change.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the Lincoln cents and Washington quarters and Euro coins and Canadian Loonies all become obsolete, so what?&nbsp; That will just make &#039;em more collectible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plastic as money?&nbsp; Bring it on.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what the stuff I <i>spend</i> looks like.&nbsp; The stuff I <i>collect</i> will just become increasingly old-fashioned. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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