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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 4315752, member: 68"]Until early in this century the mint destroyed very few clad quarters. Even now the numbers are quite low compared to production. Yes, they get truckload after truckload of mixed coins damaged in municipal incinerators and these do add up but there are still very few worn and damaged coins culled out of circulation. Many of these are quarters that won't go through coin counting machines at the coin distribution centers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are being lost and destroyed one at a time for the main part or getting burned up in fires or bulldozed after floods. They get sucked up into vacuum cleaners and recycled in old cars. They aren't worth much any longer so many are in huge change jars and then the whole accumulation is destroyed by some means.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 4315752, member: 68"]Until early in this century the mint destroyed very few clad quarters. Even now the numbers are quite low compared to production. Yes, they get truckload after truckload of mixed coins damaged in municipal incinerators and these do add up but there are still very few worn and damaged coins culled out of circulation. Many of these are quarters that won't go through coin counting machines at the coin distribution centers. Coins are being lost and destroyed one at a time for the main part or getting burned up in fires or bulldozed after floods. They get sucked up into vacuum cleaners and recycled in old cars. They aren't worth much any longer so many are in huge change jars and then the whole accumulation is destroyed by some means.[/QUOTE]
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