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Why Does The US Mint So Many Billions Of Coins Every Year?

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 Posted 07/10/2014  12:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cladking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Increasing mintages mean it's good times. The economy needs even more coins and people aren't taking them back to the banks so it's a double whammy.
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Ugh. I just read an article on contaminated dollar bills. Here are some of the figures:

7% of bills tested had "dangerous pathogens" including pneumonia, staph, E. coli, MRSA, salmonella, and influenza.

90% of bills had traces of cocaine, 70% had heroin, 30% had methamphetamine, and 20% were contaminated with phencyclidine (PCP)

Sweat, mold, and yeast were also turned up in the study.

I think I need to wash my hands.


I wonder what percent have been in the elastic band of an exotic dancer's "uniform". My BIL worked as a bank teller and he said they had quite a few tired looking women that would deposit $1000+ in ones every Monday morning.

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Paper currency is filthy but now that coins have been rendered meaningless by inflation almost all cash transactions are done in paper. Paper has been shown to be a vector for disease yet coins are just used to make change.

I no longer believe that the government wants to fix the currency system.
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I no longer believe that the government wants to fix the currency system.


or the health system? wonder how much the pharmaceutical companies lobby to keep the bills since it helps keeping people catching colds and the companies selling more and more OTC medicines for people and bacteria to become resistant to?
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