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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 366166, member: 13378&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I was reading an article from last month in the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_owen/?currentPage=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_owen/?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">New Yorker</a> about the cent, and it listed these statistics: </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That made me wonder: What would really happen in the economy if the Mint hypothetically stopped producing coins for a year? Would there actually be some kind of shortage of coins? Would commerce be affected at all? How long would it be until commerce saw the effects of the non-renewal of the coin supply, or the steady &quot;leaking&quot; mentioned in the article? What&#039;s the real-world need for the production of so&nbsp; many coins each year?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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