https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/nationa...tting-coins-back-in-circulation/2414768/

Amid the coronavirus crisis, Americans have largely abandoned cash in favor of credit cards or contactless payments. As a result, there aren’t enough pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to go around.

Now the U.S. Mint, which manufactures coins, is asking for help.

“There is an adequate amount of coins in the economy, but the slowed pace of circulation has meant that sufficient quantities of coins are sometimes not readily available where needed,” the Mint said in a statement.

“We ask that the American public start spending their coins, depositing them, or exchanging them for currency at financial institutions or taking them to a coin redemption kiosk.

Still, new habits may be hard to break. Americans are finally embracing contactless and digital payment methods after years of reluctance.

“The pandemic has accelerated many of the digital trends that were already underway, but it’s probably pushed us forward five years in five months,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com.

Can't when bank lobby's are closed.
Coin trade machines are a royal screw

Do not buy that line of bullsheit for one second. Not one.


We'll dump all our coins in response to this request then they'll continue on with their agenda, and we'll be that much closer to their cashless utopia.

It might help if businesses wouldn't disallow coinage. There are signs up some places...some of them government places, that won't allow you to use change to pay for stuff.

All debts, public or private.
Demand a receipt, and watch them count it.

A local Wal-Mart is taking my change without charge. $1395 in pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters this week.

Change needs to abolished anywhoooo.

A penny? Really???!!!

That's a nice haul. Must have been saving them up for a long time.

It represented a not insignificant fixed portion of silver till the Nixon Administration came along. Imagine being able to cash in 140 pennies for an ounce of pure silver today. That was the value of a penny till 1972 ... what is today about one-one-hundredth of $18.00. You could, at any bank, exchange fifty of them, till that year, for a 90% silver half dollar containing 0.3617 troy ounces of pure silver, about a $9.00 value today.

If no one is using cash, WTF is change needed for?

Pennies at the SOS office would be fun......

this! there are 4 US mints capable of a million $ a day in coins, WTF?

Good possibility this is part of a prelude to cashless.

You rarely go wrong when you suspect the worst motives from the powers behind the state.

It's not a coin shortage.... it's a coin collection.

When was the last time someone actually 'spent' a penny.

Get rid of it. They all go into jars...

The pre-1982 US pennies are made of copper, and are worth more than one penny each. From now on, their purchasing power is fairly fixed, and cannot fluctuate that much (except perhaps upwards), unlike the zinc ones (post-1981), which are now about worthless and will continue to drop in purchasing power at a constantly accelerating rate. The fact that pre-1982 pennies are made of copper means that they will always be worth (in exchange for goods) about what they are worth today, which by itself makes them quite valuable as a medium of exchange and store of value. The ancient Romans made many purchases from surrounding civilizations with copper ingots. Copper, like silver and gold, has a fairly constant value (and thus purchasing power) over long periods of time.

My dad used to collect wheat pennies...had a whole jar full. I wonder what ever happened to those...I expect my sisters have them. Lol

I've got a pile of Wheat Pennies, along with a jar full of pre-1982 pennies. Those both are worth saving when you come across them.

I've got a load of coins just sitting around because I never used them. If there was a convenient way to turn them in I'd do it. I'm certainly not going to roll them.

Every grocery store has a machine for that. They charge a percentage for the service. No rolling needed.

I dont see this shortage around here.
Must be a regional thing???
Dunno....

Seriously???? I've never seen that around here - anywhere...

A few years ago, a few really pissed off taxpayers in our county decided to pay property taxes with pennies, more for harassment purposes than anything. About the second time it happened the county tax collector/ treasurers office hung up signs prohibiting payment in coinage. Which started another screaming match over "legal tender" etc. It all just kind of died down eventually.

How long did it take you to roll all that up?

Ding ding ding ding ding ding

There is no federal law that requires a privately owned store to accept USA bills or coins.

"There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise."

The above is straight from the feds mouth.

The Fed or the feds?

The Fed is a privately owned Jew bank.

F E D E R A L

As noted above, you just dump the coins into a machine, the machine takes a cut and you take the remaining cash.

ADL Anti-Semitism in the US
Jewish "Control" of the Federal Reserve: A Classic Antisemitic Myth

“For centuries, antisemitic propaganda has demonized the Jew as a conspiratorial, manipulative outsider, often with powers and designs of world domination. From the Middle Ages through the Holocaust, fabricated accusations against Jews as poisoners and corrupters have led to horrendous suffering for the Jewish people.

In more recent years, the antisemitic notion that "the Jews" dominate and command the U.S. Federal Reserve System and in effect control the world’s money has surfaced across the extremist spectrum. Contemporary economic anxieties and distrust of government have given new life to this timeworn myth.
The world of finance is an area of complexity, if not mystery, to most Americans, and confusions can easily be manipulated and suspicions aroused. The bigot’s rationale is often conveyed in inflated images of intricate, stealthy "conspiracies." For example, under the headline "The jews [sic] have a Plan," the Idaho-based Nazi-like group Aryan Nations has reported finding significance in the fact that the Federal Reserve System and the Anti-Defamation League were founded in the same year — 1913. Another "specialist" in antisemitic conspiracy fantasies, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, recently expounded and embellished the same "historical" point.”

Sorry, I know you're big on Jewish supremacy.

You're killing us.

Near every register in this community there's always an ash tray or small bucket filled with change. If one's got the bills and is a quarter or 10 cents short clerks reach over and make up the difference. Most times if my change is composed of anything short of quarters, it all goes in the bucket.

Likely most of the change in the US resides in Vegas now.

The Jew cries out as he strikes you!

Yes.

There was a guy on here parroting some bozo state senator who advised that if you offer a store cash for a purchase, and they don’t accept it, you are free to considered the debt settled and can walk out with the stuff.

People will believe nearly anything when it aligns with their bizarre world view.

Took couple quarts of mixed change to drive up at bank. They poured through a machine and gave me cash, no charge.

Some banks require rolled coins, some don't. We normally toss change into a jar and cash it on for a vacation, it covers about a nice dinner out.

Haven't seen the "no cash" around here, but have seen "exact change only". We've paid for some things with coins and the stores thanked us.

In the old days, banks would put your loose change through their machine for free, and give you the cash. I did it all the time as a kid and a young man. Then they started telling me I had to put them in the paper rolls they provided. I did it, and brought them in, only to see each roll get broken like an egg and poured into the counting machine before they gave me the cash. I think they just started requiring the rolls to discourage folks from bringing in their change.

PS Now that they are short on change, I bet they are starting to accept loose change again.

Loose change, no rolls.