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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2357962, member: 31533&quot;]<a href="https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/distribution.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/distribution.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/distribution.aspx</a> Interesting piece that sort of discusses the number of coins produced. Also that stockpiles of coins are available to be released without regard to year and mintmark and that when coins are returned by banks they are judged by fitness and have foreign coins culled out there. A supposition would be that with only about 86 million 2009 nickels produced and a current population at or about 320 million people in the US only allows for just about one of those nickels for one in four of those people. If chance allowed all to get into circulation (which it did not as there were boxes shipped places like a number to puerto rico that people got them and saved them to sell to collectors) then chance could easily allow the minority of people receiving them to also be non-collectors who use them as they would normally and in the process have them distributed primarily between those who also don&#039;t collect coins, thereby putting them in either a lower grade or turning them into damaged coins with no numismatic value by the time someone who CRHs gets one or more. It is unknown how many have been saved are are still awaiting release. Only time will tell how valuable some of these will be or what the percentage estimated will be for those that remain uncirculated. Because it was announced that the coin production was being halted in April of that year and I usually see new year nickels between March and August in change, this gave every opportunity for new rolls to be stopped from circulating by anyone with the ability to hoard a small amount of money (up to 100 or so) if presented with that opportunity (finding that they had new coins for that year).</p><p>Presumably any entering circulation up to mid to late april would not have been hoarded in rolls, because there was no reason to think that this years nickel mintage would only end up at about 13 percent of a normal years mintage (contemporary years surrounding it).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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