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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 15567, member: 1113&quot;]Yep.&nbsp; People used to be aware of changes in their money all the time -- not just changes in design but changes in denominations as well.&nbsp; Since we&#039;ve politicized our money, there&#039;s effectively gridlock in changing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as a result of this gridlock, people no longer seem to know what to do with &quot;new money&quot; that comes along -- *spend* it along side the old money until people start putting the old money away for collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention that small denominations like cents and nickels often sit in jars for months or years at a time before people get around to spending them or bringing them to a bank or a Coinstar machine.&nbsp; Does anyone really expect to see many G-4 1978-D cents, say, 20 years from now?&nbsp; Or below VF, even?&nbsp; Contrast that to the typical 1912 cent old-timers saw in 1958, when it too would have been 46 years old.&nbsp; Most of them were spent and spent often.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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