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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 16963, member: 57463&quot;]Ouch.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, someone else might be enjoying them.&nbsp; Not all refuse makes it to the landfill.&nbsp; Depending on where you are and how they dispose of it all, the pennies are waiting to be discovered by a future archaeologist.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that about 9000 or 10000 AD, robots will be mining Earth for artifacts of humanity and cataloguing everything.&nbsp; They will find your coins, identify the dirt, and cross index it to your house and you and the archives of this website.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I do throw stuff out.&nbsp; When I find Nazi coins in bulk lots of world, I pitch them into the wastebasket.&nbsp; Once, coming back from a road trip, I saw the difference in the Red Book between what I bought and what I got and tossed a $10 purchase out the window and never looked back.&nbsp; And on a happier note, speaking of gardens, we have had three homes in five years and I have buried mixed lots of coins -- ancient and modern alike -- in each.&nbsp; Let the archaeologists think about that for a while.&nbsp; About 4000 AD there will be a blog in the Titan Journal of Terran Numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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