The federal reserve has to buy coins from the treasury at face value.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm
This means that every dollar, of coins, that you keep in your change jar is a dollar out of the pockets of the people that have done very terrible things to us.
It is them that inflated away the pensions, savings, and jobs.
The world is the way it is because of the fed.
Dyor.
There is a 'coin shortage' not because the fed ran out of money and the mint out of metal, but because folks stopped spending their coins.
Think about it, dear reader, when the crap hits the fan, the man with the most change wins.
If all you have is big chunks of gold, silver, and cryptos, I bet you run into some expensive chickens.
Paper will be worthless, but coins will endure.
Even the fake sandwich money they have foisted upon us will have value to exchange in return for ounces of silver.
Imagine that, trading your coins for the equal weight of silver because no stores can give change on an ounce of silver.
If you are worried about metal content, buy nickels.
http://coinapps.com/nickel/us/calculator/
They are nearest to scrap value, if you don't want to sift through pounds of pennies looking for the copper ones.
If you don't mind sifting the pennies for pre-1982's, they are worth almost 2 cents each, right now.
http://coinapps.com/base-metal/coin/calculator/
I know throwing molotov's at the cops is reserved for a select few of us that really feel the pain of being oppressed, but even the most square of the square, that doesn't like the fed, can push back by simply hoarding change.
When you go to the bank, get a couple rolls of nickels.
When you get home, drop them in one of those big plastic water bottles, and melt wax in on top of them.
This keeps the cigarette smokers out of them, and makes them too much heavy work to steal.
Even if you can only fill up a soda bottle, every little bit helps.
