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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2364161, member: 66&quot;]At which point those of use who just love the coins for themselves will be very happy after the prices crash.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What baseball said.&nbsp; Our money has lost so much of it&#039;s value that the coins aren&#039;t worth enough to bother carrying them.&nbsp; The quarter, the &quot;workhorse&quot; coin, has the purchasing power that two cents did back when I was a kid.&nbsp; They really don&#039;t buy much of anything anymore unless you have a large quantity of them and no one want to carry all that weight when they could just carry a few notes.&nbsp; So the coins pretty much make a one way trip from the mint to the change jar.&nbsp; The larger coins come back out from time to time but the cents (which make up the bulk of the aual coinage) stay in the jars a LOT longer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But commerce has to continue so the mint has to keep making more coins to replace those disappearing into the change jars.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It will for awhile.&nbsp; Back when they discontinued the large cent it created a big increase in interest from people trying to put together a set before they all disappeared.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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