Nationwide coin shortage...

[Figure of eighty]

49 minutes ago, Fidei Defensor said:

Coins will likely soon be abolished as we move to a cashless world. 

You're right

[Fidei Defensor]

I wonder if pennies and shellings will oneday be worth a fortune because they aren't in circulation anymore, and they “belong in a museum.” (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade). 

[Debp]

8 hours ago, LadyKay said:

Good heavens first toilet paper now coins. When will this madness stop?  Too bad we have no shortage of stupid people.   (I'm in a bit of a mood to night) 

I heard that people are also buying up condiment packets like crazy!

[Fidei Defensor]

18 minutes ago, Debp said:

I heard that people are also buying up condiment packets like crazy!

Not ketchup! ?

[Neighbor]

13 hours ago, Figure of eighty said:

Just learned today were experiencing that. 

 

Times are really getting crazy. 

 

I dont think things will ever go back to normal.

Why would one want normal? Bring back the Assyrians? I don't think so. May every day be a brave new world to experience in the security that  is the gospel of Jesus.

Easy way to get around coin shortages is "round up" and or" keep the change". Round up is an easy way to help in a big way many charities today.

I have about four or five hundred dollars in coins in a basket. When the sorter machines at the bank become easily available again I'll likely run in with the basket of coins.

A coin shortage is not an especially new thing, it happens. We were always asking  for coins  back in my Innkeeping and retail days, way back there in the 1970's.

The times they change maybe, but really not so much. It is always some crisis somewhere and sometimes everywhere. Be calm God be with us, He draws us close even as He comes closer to coming and raising up His own. It is all good. Flatten the fear.

[Don19]

There are plenty of coins out there, but from what I am hearing there's a slowdown in the pace of circulation, which is causing these problems.

[Figure of eighty]

6 hours ago, Don19 said:

There are plenty of coins out there, but from what I am hearing there's a slowdown in the pace of circulation, which is causing these problems.

Oh ok I see.

[Rosenberg57]

14 hours ago, Fidei Defensor said:

I wonder if pennies and shellings will oneday be worth a fortune because they aren't in circulation anymore, and they “belong in a museum.” (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade). 

Canada Abolished pennies, they round up and down to the nearest nickle.

[Fidei Defensor]

33 minutes ago, Rosenberg57 said:

Canada Abolished pennies, they round up and down to the nearest nickle.

Are there any valuable Canadian pennies? 

[Rosenberg57]

1 hour ago, Fidei Defensor said:

Are there any valuable Canadian pennies? 

Coming in at number 1 on this list of rare Canadian pennies is the renown 1936 “dot” penny.  This penny is the undisputed “King” of Canadian Pennies!

The story of how the 1936 “dot” coins came into being involved King Edward VIII’s sudden abdication in late 1936 which saw George VI ascend to the throne.  That event caused a major problem for the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) because they didn’t have any dies with the new king’s effigy on them to strike the 1937 coinage.  Their solution was to produce a small number of 1936 coins with a tiny raised “dot” just below the date to denote that they were struck in 1937.

Only 3 denominations were ever struck with the “dot”: 25-cents, 10-cents and 1-cent pieces.  The 1936 “dot” 1-cent coin is the rarest of them all with only 3 mint state examples known to exist.  One example sold at a 2010 coin auction for over $400,000!