Posted on 08/11/2020 9:30:25 AM PDT by cuz1961
What really happened to all the U.S. coins ?
Was it the coin rapture ?
If all our good coins were taken in the blink of an eye, are the coins that got left behind evil ?
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Just think of it as another Gov entity trying to ef with US!-)
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'....
I cashed in close to $1,000 last fall........
He’s left office. He hasn’t gone away...
They think they are going to use the coins to keep the eyes closed during transports and viewings. They are confused
Mocking what God is about to do NEXT is no way to highlight the end of your life
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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” ?
Gold obliterated!
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
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.
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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.
“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.
“Maybe but there are those coin machines in many (many) Grocery stores.”
Those have been shut down in my area.
“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.
“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.
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