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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2875681, member: 66&quot;]Actually there is huge demand for the cent because they all make a one way trip to the change jar so they always have to make more.&nbsp; If the demand was low the fed wouldn&#039;t be ordering them and the mint wouldn&#039;t be making them and the supply would be low.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is demand that drives the mintages when it comes to coins.&nbsp; The mint holds a stockpile to fill orders from the Fed and then strikes coins to replenish the stockpile.&nbsp; If the Fed doesn&#039;t need more coins they don&#039;t order, the stockpile doesn&#039;t go down and the mint stops coining.&nbsp; That was why the 2009 coins had such low mintages.&nbsp; The crash of 2008 brought a lot of coins back to the banks and Federal reserve and they stopped ordering from the Mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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