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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 606330, member: 66&quot;]Because thy are still tied up in the distibution system behind the huge flood of circulated coins that people started cashing in after the economy went sour.&nbsp; Fed policy requires that orders for coins from banks be filled from circulated stock first before they are filled from Uncirculated stock.&nbsp; The huge amount of circulated coins redeemed is the reason the mintage of the 2009 coins has been reduced so much.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2008 the economy was better and when people got coins they tossed them into jars when they got home.&nbsp; So coins were being constantly removd from circulation and had to be replaced.&nbsp; This means that coins flowed quickly from the Mint to the Fed to the banks.&nbsp; This year the cins were flowing from the people to the bank to the Fed.&nbsp; Then recenly from the Fed to the banks again, and it has just been recently that they are started flowing from the Mnt to the Fed as the stocks of coins in the Fed have started going back down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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