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U.S. Coin Rapture of 2020
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Posted on 08/11/2020 9:30:25 AM PDT by cuz1961

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To: cuz1961

Just think of it as another Gov entity trying to ef with US!-)


61 posted on 08/11/2020 10:51:04 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: cuz1961; All
My guess is that the government is trying to move the population toward electronic payments so they can track ALL of your expenditures.

What better way to control the population than to know how and where everybody is spending their money. And what better way to do that than to tell people there is a coin shortage and to slowly wean people off of using cash?

I wouldn't put it past the government to pitch this scheme but I don't think there actually is a coin or cash shortage myself.

Just another conspiracy theory floating around during this pandemic.

I'm just sayin'....

62 posted on 08/11/2020 10:51:32 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: fireman15
We turned in about a hundred dollars worth of coins that we had collected over the past 20 years last April.

I cashed in close to $1,000 last fall........

63 posted on 08/11/2020 10:51:43 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Boogieman

He’s left office. He hasn’t gone away...


64 posted on 08/11/2020 10:52:49 AM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: cuz1961

They think they are going to use the coins to keep the eyes closed during transports and viewings. They are confused


65 posted on 08/11/2020 10:55:32 AM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts)
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To: cuz1961
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers

Mocking what God is about to do NEXT is no way to highlight the end of your life

66 posted on 08/11/2020 10:57:23 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RayChuang88

I actually went in to a Walmart the other day and found that there were only a couple of checkout lines where they would accept cash! I went through the ‘card and checks’ line with a Walmart gift card from a returned item I returned that day. My bill left $.42 to finish the transaction. I could not use coins so I had to use a credit card to pay the additional $.43. The transaction recording and handling will be more than the transaction amount due! Yes, the globalist oligarchy is transitioning US to electronic transaction only.


67 posted on 08/11/2020 11:02:59 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: webheart

I save pennies before 1982, and quarters, and ANY silver I still find.

Interesting about the nickels.

Quarters are still invaluable at the laundromat.

I am also starting to save brass and lead.


68 posted on 08/11/2020 11:03:57 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: catnipman

I’m a coin hoarder, and I’m definitely not a leftist. I’ve been doing it for a few years now. I’m not trying to create a shortage, but trying to see how many Quarters, Nickels, and Dimes a 1 gallon water jug will hold. The jug is about 2/3rds full, and I have over $300.00 in quarters, $130.00 in dimes, and $30.00 in nickels. :)


69 posted on 08/11/2020 11:19:00 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Fire Fauci)
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To: cuz1961
The only things I ever use coins for these days (quarters) are vending machines and parking meters. And even those are quickly moving to an electronic payment option. In my area, there are now kiosks by the parking meters to enter your payment and print out a parking slip. Or you can get a Pepsi out of the vending machine by waving your cellphone at it.

Young people more and more don't handle cash. My millennial children laugh at me with my wallet. They love to just wave the cellphone and pay that way. As my generation dies off, coins (and currency) will go the way of payphones and mailing hand-written letters.

There won't be a government edict or anything "banning" the use of money. The use of it will just slowly fade away as the younger generations supplant us. Whether we like it or not.

70 posted on 08/11/2020 11:21:40 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Go away where ?

Where do they go to ?

Will people throw them away ?

Hoard them so they can spend digits ?

Melt them down for their non presious metals ?

Use them for fishing weights ?

In a jar never to be spent ?

Where will they “ go” ?


71 posted on 08/11/2020 11:31:52 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 10/17/78 to 11/24/84)
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To: cuz1961

Gold obliterated!


72 posted on 08/11/2020 11:32:04 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: RayChuang88

yes but this is only one avenue they’ve used to do it

they said germs on money will kill us all

they push security of not being robbed - you’ll just be killed instead with an empty wallet

they push cost savings for not producing money

they push no counterfeiting, although bank accounts are electronically hacked

and when power goes out you cant pay for anything

and the bank and/or govt can freeze your accounts and now you cant use your ‘money’

its always about control of the masses, always


73 posted on 08/11/2020 11:44:44 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cuz1961
They will become collector items. They will join the other antiques in all those quaint stores that line our town streets.


74 posted on 08/11/2020 11:45:13 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

There’s an idea !

I’ll open a combo antique and laundromat store.

Then I won’t have to travel and spend twice as much trying to get enough quarters to get my laundry done .

I might even get one of those quaint old fashioned constitutions into the shop.

/-)


75 posted on 08/11/2020 12:02:07 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 10/17/78 to 11/24/84)
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To: z3n

I actually blame the Democrats and the MSM for views like this. The low-information voters and/or those who think Democrats will hand out endless freebies believe all this garbage touted by the MSM.

They make no effort to fact-check anything they might hear on CNN, NBC, and so on.

I really don’t think the Russians are involved in promoting this thinking, but that is just my opinion.


76 posted on 08/11/2020 12:18:13 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: CodeToad

“Bank lobbies are closed. People cannot deposit their coins they collect like they usually do”

Maybe but there are those coin machines in many (many) Grocery stores. Whether people are still using them is unknown. I’m sure people are wary of this pandemic and maybe are holding coins as hard currency is the SHTF even more so than last March / April.


77 posted on 08/11/2020 1:19:46 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

“Maybe but there are those coin machines in many (many) Grocery stores.”

Those have been shut down in my area.


78 posted on 08/11/2020 1:35:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Leaning Right

“They are rounding cash purchases up to the nearest dollar, then donating the extra amount to charity.”

I am sick and tired if this rounding up donation crap. If they want to do some virtue signalling, fine, but don’t ask me to pay for it.


79 posted on 08/11/2020 5:32:10 PM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“I’m a coin hoarder”

I did that for about 20 years. When I turned it all in (except for the pennies), it came out to about $2600. I had to use a furniture dolly to haul it into the bank. I figured that was enough of that crap, so now I just save pennies and more recently nickles.


80 posted on 08/11/2020 5:36:53 PM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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