I'm starting to see signs in corporate stores stating something along the lines of "due to a national coin shortage, please try to use exact change if paying with cash" and some places only have 1/6 checkout lines that will accept cash. Is this the last ditch effort to remove all untraceable transactions, or is there actually some sort of legitimate national coin shortage?
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All the homeless camps are hoarding them
Really though, the US mints shutdown to China Virus, coins should make a comeback.
That makes sense. Damaged coins are still being removed from circulation like normal, but the supply of replacements is limited or non existent due to the shutdown. I can't wait for November, when the wu flu panic will vanish as fast as russia collusion did.
What situation requires a mint for that? People's piggy banks getting to big?
Sara Silverman seems to think all the coins are being thrown at her.
Bring back the gold standard