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by spiralx 1184 days ago
There are some great historical nuggets in that archive, I liked this appeal to people to stop hoarding pennies and get them back into circulation.

> Creating a shortage where it does not exist can adversely affect every public spirited citizen, taxpayer and conservator of the earth’s resources. It is inflationary should merchants start to round off sales to the next nickel due to lack of pennies to make change.

> Again, I’d like to emphasize. There are plenty of pennies. But they are in the wrong places.

> It is estimated that over 30 billion pennies are in circulation—doing the job for which they were intended. Somewhere in this vast country of ours, however, in excess of 30 billion pennies are in hiding. These are the pennies I’m looking for. They are in dresser drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars; most anyplace you can think of that will get them out of pocket and out of sight. They are unwanted, unused and unappreciated.

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mi...