I don't generally participate in percentage topics (or many at all by looking at my posts since 2007), let alone start one, but what are your thoughts on the fact that there are tons and tons of new cents put in the market by the fed every year. Even if there weren't a significant number of coppers exiting the population, (which I don't think is significant unless you're sorting in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Arkansas or Pennsylvania, wouldn't the percentage of copper vs zinc be skewing in favor of zinc somewhat anyway, just by the huge number of zinc's coming into the market? Because in the thread that got me to thinking about this, everyone was generally down only a few percent. I have taken a significant amount of cu out of my market in the last 4/5 years and it only seems to be down 5% or so. Just taking a visual survey, there seems to be an awful lot of shiny newer type coins in my zinc bags.
I know there are some sharp statistical minds here and I just wondered what you guys had to say.... Like on talk radio, I'll just hang up and listen...