Collected Item: “A Nationwide Coin Shortage”
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A Nationwide Coin Shortage
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Photograph
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With businesses dealing with physical money closing down, people avoiding handling hard currency out of fear of contracting COVID-19, and the US Mint experiencing significant difficulties in coin production in the spring of 2020, the US supply of circulating coins took a hit, prompting signs like this one at a west Wichita, Kansas, grocery store to become commonplace. Appearing in both English and Spanish, this image reflects the growing importance of cashless forms of payment and donations as ways of navigating this economic side effect of COVID-19.
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Aaron Peterka
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2020-07-16