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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2687473, member: 66&quot;]Not every one of them.&nbsp; If they were then the mint wouldn&#039;t be making anywhere near as many coins as they are.&nbsp; That&#039;s what happened in the crash of 2008, a lot of jars did get dumped and coin production plummeted. </p><p><br /></p><p>cents </p><p>2007 7.3 billion</p><p>2008 5.3 billion</p><p>2009 2.35 billion</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickels</p><p>2007 1.2 billion</p><p>2008 .65 billion</p><p>2009 .08 billion</p><p><br /></p><p>dimes </p><p>2007 2.1 billion</p><p>2008 1.1 billion</p><p>2009 .15 billion</p><p><br /></p><p>quarters </p><p>2007 2.7 billion</p><p>2008 2.4 billion</p><p>2009 .64 billion</p><p><br /></p><p>So many coins came out of jars in 2008 that mintages didn&#039;t reach pre-crash levels until around 2012 (and believe me not all the jars got dumped.&nbsp; Also those jars got dumped because people were financially hurting.&nbsp; A cent shortage will NOT cause people to dump their jars).&nbsp; Coins were going into jars again.&nbsp; The mint doesn&#039;t make the huge numbers of coins it does because the economy is growing so much that it needs that many more of them each year, it makes them to replace the coins pulled OUT of circulation each year that are lost or in those jars.&nbsp; Yes there are always some jars getting dumped and the coins rotated back into circulation but I would bet that the majority of them are not and stay out for many years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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