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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;erscolo, post: 26123368, member: 112112&quot;]1932 and 1933 were the depths of the Great Depression.&nbsp; At that point the gross domestic products of this country had contracted 40%.&nbsp; Nothing else has even come close to that.&nbsp; On the eve of Pearl Harbor, in 1941, unemployment was still 14%, and that was eight to nine years later.&nbsp; Demand collapsed, jobs collapsed, everything collapsed.&nbsp; There was no need for coinage in 1932 or 1933.&nbsp; The Lincoln Cents minted then sat in vaults until the slow pace of recovery got moving by 1935.&nbsp; What cured the Depression?&nbsp; The Second World War.&nbsp; In December 1941 unemployment was 14%, and by May 1942 it was 2%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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