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> This is so weird, why would anyone redeem them?

I'm confused, you would keep it?

It's just a buy-one-get-one-free campaign.

I think it's a safe assumption that they'll be worth more as collectibles than as burgers.

Why? There's going to be 6.2 million of them. Who's going to want to buy them? And more importantly, who's going to go through the trouble of keeping them and selling them for any kind of minor profit?

6.2 million globally. I can't find figures for total number of Big Macs sold each day globally, but I'm guessing it's in the ball park of 6.2 million. The coins will likely be gone before the day is out.

Consider the following factoids in the context of exchange rates and PPP. In other words, the ratio of foreign customers to domestic is probably far greater than foreign revenue to domestic revenue.

Factoids:

* Roughly 1.5 million Big Macs sold each day in the U.S. alone. https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/mcdonalds-statistics...

* U.S. accounts for less than half of global revenues. See https://www.statista.com/topics/1444/mcdonalds/ and https://www.statista.com/statistics/219453/revenue-of-the-mc...

* They serve over 60 million customers globally each day. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/04/30/13-Disturb...

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