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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;savitale, post: 3093561, member: 95284&quot;]OK, so maybe much of it ends up in Kirkuleez junk drawer. But I suspect many of the 8 Billion cents minted last year do not. Assuming a cent&#039;s useful life is 25 years, there are 217 billion cents in circulation. That&#039;s 668 for every man, woman and child in this country. Based on the above comments I guess it is plausible there are that many in piggy banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible that the percentage of non-cash transactions in my area may not be representative of that in the rest of the country. But at least around here it seems like if coins were eliminated entirely maybe 1 in 10 people would be inconvenienced. For what it&#039;s worth, most of the vending machines and parking meters here take credit cards now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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