Remember when pennies were copper? Then they were less copper, some sort of copper/zinc amalgam? Now they're around 98% zinc, with a splash of copper. Quarters and dimes were silver, then less silver, then no silver. We're told to believe the new dimes and quarters are 75% copper, with the remainder nickel, but the side view looks like the same zinc as the pennies. This "coin shortage" would be the perfect opportunity for certain players to gather much of the remaining minted metals in the US, accelerating our financial death spiral like a couple of lesbians in a van full of adopted black babies headed for a cliff.