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I saw an interactive game a few years ago that showed showed examples of how coins were taken out of circulation. You can easily find a penny on the ground and no one picks it up. People also toss coins into fountains, lose them in their couch cushions, flatten them in those souvenir coin machines, collect them, put them in a jar and simply never cash them for years. There are even people doing coin surface DIYs (though that probably accounts for less of the loss).

I think it's very believable that there'd be a coin shortage. Tons of things that's been produced in the past has been lost to time.

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