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How fast will it take for a zinkle to rot?


that was my first thought.

when I was very young, in my grandpa's garage, on the workbench, among all the screws and nails and stuff i'd occasionally find a small aluminum coin from somewhere and my young mind noted the difference between our early 70s coinage and that very lightweight chip from wherever.

skipping ahead many years to the mid-2000s, I cleaned up a pile of mostly zincolns from someone's carport one day here in KW. at that time I didn't really know that zincolns would dissolve out there in the elements. I discovered that issue as I cleaned up those coins.

all of the valuable metal has been or is being removed from our coinage. shaking my head.
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Like the Cent, it should just be discontinued rather than producing a zombie Nickel.


And the dime, and the quarter....all coinage other than the dollar coins should be ENDED. Our government has inflated the value of coins in commerce away. Most people are using electronic transactions and the few of us old folks still using cash don't care much about getting coins back either (collector exception).

The mining, cost of production and time wasted by humans counting and moving heavy metal disks around in giant diesel spewing trucks is a travesty to mankind. Every year, MILLIONS of gallons of precious fuel are spent - wasting energy and polluting our environment all to shuffle around coins.

Here's a fun question!

How much gasoline is WASTED in every road vehicle from hauling around the extra weight of coins inside their cars?

Come on, EVERY car has coins inside it. I suspect a few more million gallons are wasted if you look at the additive effect of an extra pound or two on every single car in America.
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While 6 ounces of gasoline per year is entirely negligible to an individual driver, it scales up when looking at the entire country. For instance, with roughly 280 million registered vehicles in the United States, if every single car carried a 1-pound stash of coins, it would collectively waste about 13.4 million gallons of gasoline annually.
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