"Usa Act" May Kill Penny, Nickel & $1 Bill

I know right, why in the world would a coin community care so much about coins? That is just silly



you didn't mention a 50 cent piece, only the 20 cent piece. you mentioned a 50 kopek or something like that from Russia, so I am confused what I should have said about it?

You pretty much know the coin choices I have made: dollar, dime, cent.

This also means it removes MY favorite coin (half dollar), but it makes sense as you can still do the math by reading the number of coins needed for payment or change directly from the price
$6.98

you need a 5, a dollar coin, 9 dimes, and 8 pennies.

I actually hate the dime because its size they always ran away from my hands, but doubt they will fix the size where the smallest coin has the smallest value, UNLESS that is their excuse for getting rid of the nickel and penny.

Maybe because I grew up with the Dewey Decimal system and had to use it in a public library (for those younger people this is what the internet was before the internet, where you could read things you didn't own.) but the decimal system is simple, it works, and is universal to pretty much EVERY country. the ONLY universal language with have in this world right now is math, so why not use it for the basis of our money like coins?

I do agree that the quarter should have never existed beyond the reale where people were allowed to pay with 2 chunks (bits) of it to get their shave and haircut. it should have always been 20 cent. but we need neither, and just the dollar, dime, and penny will do the job of ALL the other coins.




Welcome to America? McDonalds costs more than it take to make and people still waste money on it, and it is bad for you in the mass quantities a lot of people eat it in. at least the penny with what little copper is left has coppers anti-microbial properties and is somewhat a universal health care system for the country in that respects! so the penny costs twice as much and is pulling double duty. I guess its value to cost is pretty good then if it helps promote good health for those that use it.

again, I cannot support the idea that the amount it costs really means something unless it is actually putting us in some sort of financial crisis and the CEO bonuses that were paid with the TARP funds of $200 billion (the same number this act proclaims to save?) did a LOT worse to put us in economic crisis than the penny ever could. By the time the penny could break us financially as a country, the world will ahve stopped using money anyway.

sorry not a proper comparison...Unfortunately in the U.S. today cheap food that fills you often takes the place of actual nourishment, I do apologize however, this is a completely different topic....





Google Zinc toxicity. Eat a handful of Zincolns and let us know how you feel.

Standard Oil is a profitable business so why not just start pumping oil into all the waterways? The cleanup costs would eat up much of their profits and the lost oil will eat the rest. Everyone wins because people get jobs washing and drying ducks and the enviroments gets a nice bath.

Why not have toxic slugs that impede commerce since most otf the stores have a profit anyway? Why not lkitter the streets with wrthless coins since most just end up in the sewer or dissolved away anyway? Why not spend a few cents to make one cent.

The US is the greatest country in the world and if we can't afford to waste time, money, and resources no one can. Makes perfect sense to me.

I don't know how many times I've said this; WE NEED THE NICKEL.

We need it to bridghe the gap between the dime and quarter. We can't make change without the nickel.

But the nickel doesn't need to be a massive coin. It doesn't even need to be cu/ni.

First change it to a cheaper metal so people aren't overwhelmed by all the changes and THEN once people get used to the change shrink the nickel and melt the old ones.

This process would not only save billions of dollrs but it would streamline commerce, help vending sales, and actually turn a profit for the mint. The net cost would be less than the value of the coins they melt.

I hereby retract my recommendation!

CelticKnot, I think you misread Cladking, or am I misreading you?

I haven't researched this in years. According to the research I read any mammal less than about 18 pounds could be killed by the sudden absorbtion of the amount of zinc in a single penny. In the real world a zinc penny normally won't stay in the stomach long enough to be dissolved because of the copper lining. Of course if the lining is compromised as is common and it doesn't move through quickly (such as when ingested with a nickel or quarter) then it can be fatal. It's quite surprising to me that no human deaths have been attributed to these coins but such fatalities can go undiagnosed even in autopsy.

Humans, especilly adults, can normally tolerate much higher levels of zinc much healthy levels are far lower than what's in a penny.

I said that a few pages or so back. Also said limit them to a few per purchase, that way people would have no real way to make a profit counterfeiting them if you cold only spend 4 at a time ti make exact change. but someone will complain they still cost more than a cent to make. well maybe need 9 at a time if they get rid of the nickel.




So each year they are already bringing the cost down.
2011 69 million
2012 58 million
2013 55 million

so just need to tweak the production and distribution since the materials cost is lower with zilcolns, or even twaek the materials cost as well.


if we are going plastic penny, then I say bring "back" the wooden nickel!