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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 578540, member: 17753&quot;]Yes, to almost all of them.&nbsp; Taking them one by one:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><ul> <li><span style="color: Blue"><b>Pres dollars</b></span> - if you look at the <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/mints/us-mint-circulating-1-coin-production-figures-by-president/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/mints/us-mint-circulating-1-coin-production-figures-by-president/" rel="nofollow">mintages</a>, you can see that just about every dollar has less mintage than the one before, with WH Harrison the first one ever below 100m.&nbsp; Given the declining interest, and the recession, I&#039;d bet that the trend will continue and mintages will get lower and lower (with Lincoln, towards the end of 2010 being a probably exception)</li> <li><span style="color: Blue"><b>Quarters </b></span>- in the last three years, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters#Mintage_quantities" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters#Mintage_quantities" rel="nofollow">mintages </a>of each of the state quarters totalled between 500m and 600m. (with a few at 400m and one at 641m).&nbsp; Again: between declining interest (particulary now that the 50 states are all done) and the recession, mintages are very low for DC (172m) and PR (139m).&nbsp; Further, the mint needs to make six quarters this year, instead of five (as they did in the previous 10 years)</li> <li><span style="color: Blue"><b>Nickels and Dimes</b></span> - as we&#039;ve just read, the mint has stopped producing those.&nbsp; Must be on account of the recession.</li> <li><b><span style="color: Blue">Cents</span> </b>- I have no knowlege, but the obvious question anyone would ask is: why <b>wouldn&#039;t</b> cents follow the same pattern as every other 2009 coin in this list?&nbsp; First off, they have to make four different cents instead of one.&nbsp; Secondly, again because of the recession, there&#039; not much public demand for more coins (which is why banks aren&#039;t ordering them).&nbsp; And, finally, the mintage for the first Lincoln cent (635m).&nbsp; Compare that to&nbsp; prior years where production has ranged from 5.4 billion (2008) to over 14B (2000), and you can see it&#039;s much less than 1/4th of a yearly production.&nbsp; So, it&#039;s hard to see the other Lincoln cents in 2009 being much more that the first one.</li> </ul><p>But, hey, I&#039;m just guessing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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