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When coins become worth more as scrap

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The moment a currency collapses, people suddenly remember that metal actually matters. Citizens quickly realize the nickel or copper trapped inside their spare change holds vastly more utility than the stamped face value. This inevitably triggers mass hoarding, where basic pocket change is aggressively smelted down in backyards just to salvage the scrap.

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