Just a thought...There is a massive coin shortage here in the states. Signs are up at checkouts all over the place saying exact change only and please sell us change. I've heard a lot of theories such as people hoarding them to people melting them down because of melt value and many others that are even less believable. People hear couldn't care less about coins. Almost no one uses change and that was was before the economy crashed. I doubt enough people are holding coins to make them instantly disappear. Same goes for scrapping them. I had a thought... What if the treasury department quietly recalled them knowing a MASSIVE dollar devaluation was in the works. One that would make it make sense to scrap coins. Its one of the few things that can account for the speed of all the coins disappearing across the country. They have pulled the coins here twice before. They did it in the thirties with gold and the sixties with silver. Anyway, just a thought. I suspect we have the right idea investing in companies such GPG.