Coins Circulation facts
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There is a Penny Lobby in the United States to keep the one cent coin in circulation even though it is produced at a loss. The lobby was hired by Jardin Zinc Products, who is the sole provider of penny blanks to the U.S. Government.
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There are no U.S. quarters with 1975 as the mint year because commemorative 1976 bicentennial quarters were being minted early in anticipation of collectors snatching the coins from circulation
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If the US used a dollar coin instead of a bill it would save $5.5 billion over 30 years. It mints dollar coins, but unlike other developed countries, won't remove the bill from circulation, possibly due to lack of support by Federal Reserve.
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In the '80s Susan B. Anthony dollars were so unpopular the US Mint had to keep $500 million worth of the coins in storage because there was no demand to circulate them.
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In 1992 Australia removed their one and two cent coins from circulation due to inflation reducing their value and the high cost of bronze. After removal, the coins were melted down and used to make the bronze medals for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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A U.S. one dollar coin was minted in 1979 to 1981 and in 1999. She was the first real woman printed on circulating currency in the U.S.
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The term penny-pincher comes from those who profitted off clipping the edges of British coins for precious metals, and then sending them back into circulation
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The 50 State Quarters Program became the most successful numismatic program in history, with roughly half of the U.S. population collecting the coins. The U.S. federal government so far has made additional profits of $3.0 billion from collectors taking the coins out of circulation.
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The word “dollar” - and the names of several other currencies past and present - is derived from the “thaler”, a type of European coin in circulation for centuries whose name originally comes from the German word for “valley”...
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The U.S. denominates its currency in dollars rather than pounds because of the Spanish dollar being the most prevalent coin circulated around the colonies at the time of the Revolution.
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of an organization that opposes taking the penny out of US coin circulation: Americans for Common Cents. A primary backer is the penny's zinc supplier to the US Mint, and a campaign once featured Kevin Federline, who became interested in the topic "because he likes text messaging."
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A 2004 special-edition Canadian twenty-five-cent coin was put in circulation by the Canadian Mint in 2004, which featured a goofy-looking caribou and used the COMIC SANS font.
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In 2004, Canada issues special 25 cent quarters with a red poppy on the reverse, making it the first colored circulation coin in the world
In 1786 Two Thirds of Coins in Circulation in Britain Were Counterfeit. - source
The bronze medals in the Sydney 2000 Olympic games were made from melted down 1 and 2 cent coins that were removed from circulation prior to the games - source
In 2017 no standard British £2 coins were minted for general circulation, because the introduction of the new £1 coins had brought enough of them back into circulation, via people emptying their coin jars primarily to get rid of their old £1 coins.
The Euro currency has more than €1.2 trillion in circulation and is one of the highest combined values of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar in Aug 2018. - source
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The Chain cent was America's first large cent and the first circulating coin officially produced by the United States Mint. Records indicate that approximately 36,103 were produced.
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Almost all of the 500,000 gold Double Eagle $20 coins cast in 1933 were melted into bullion and never circulated. However a small number were stolen from the Philadelphia Mint and the U.S. Secret Service has been pursuing them for nearly 70 years. The coin has a market value of $7.6 million.
The Chinese 1 Yuan silver coin that circulated from 1914-1921 was known as "Fat Man Dollar"
Europe took out a bunch of their bi-metal coins out of circulation, by punching out their inner circle, and then sold the pieces to china for scrap. In China, they reassembled the coins and cashed them in at a German bank.
Richard Nixon dollar coins are circulating in the U.S.
Canada has a 50 cent coin that is rarely seen in circulation. Most vending machines do not accept it and older machines might misidentify a 50-cent piece as $1. A largely unsuccessful attempt was made by the Royal Canadian Mint to promote the use of the coin in 2002 on Queen Elizabeth's jubilee