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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 616185, member: 13650&quot;]I think you&#039;ve gotten excellent replies from everyone.&nbsp; Everybody is nailing it.&nbsp; &nbsp; How many wishing wells and fountains are out there literally covered with change?&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Almost everybody has a change jar.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a change bank here with notches on the tubes so you know how much change is in it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just cashed it all in last month and started over recently.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It already has $12.25 of quarters, $2.40 worth of dimes and 0.80 worth of nickels in it.&nbsp;&nbsp; All of which obtained just in the last few weeks.&nbsp;&nbsp; That change will be sitting there until October when I&#039;ll likely cash it in for extra cash for a coin show.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; A co-worker told me his buddy brought a huge glass jug full of change recently to the bank that he&#039;s had for decades.&nbsp; He just cashed it in and there was $1,100 in it. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I metal detect occasionally as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve got an old house.&nbsp; I thought maybe I would find some old change around here.&nbsp;&nbsp; But all I ended up finding was a couple of state quarter, already buried in the yard a few inches deep!&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; I went out to my mom&#039;s house.&nbsp;&nbsp; Found two pennies, two dimes and a 1990 nickel about 6 inches deep.&nbsp; All scattered around the yard.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I found a bunch of change in my dad&#039;s yard as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s probably, literally tons worth of change lost and buried in the ground around the world on accident.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; Not to mention everything the mint has melted down and doesn&#039;t exist anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen people on ebay that cut out the fields of half dollars and silver dollars and turn them into neat money clips.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Think how many state quarters collections there are out there now.&nbsp; Almost everybody has one.&nbsp; Think how many dealers have.&nbsp;&nbsp; All those are not circulating, likely in the millions.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Just think how many cash registers exist in this country alone that are full of change!!&nbsp;&nbsp; How many parking meters?&nbsp;&nbsp; How many vending machines are there?&nbsp;&nbsp; Change machines.&nbsp;&nbsp; Rolls on top of rolls at thousands of banks.&nbsp; Hoarders.&nbsp; Collectors.&nbsp; And on and on.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s a big country.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not that surprising to me that they have to keep producing change when you think about how much we use it, don&#039;t use it, lose it, collect it and destroy it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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