Do You Think We Will See The Penny Disappear?

Thank you! After all these time of people not getting it, someone else finally said it! Since the mint doesn't only make cents, the widespread forced use of dollar coins will greatly increase the amount the mint takes in ad have plenty of money to continue making cents, cause they never made sense.

With that in mind, will dollar coins be made after 2016 and the Pre$ and NA/SACs end?

You don't need time lapse for zincolns, just spill some Pepsi/Coke on one half the zinc will be gone before you finish drying it.

I hope so, because I really hate the new shield cents. I thought maybe I would get used to the design after awhile, but it still looks like play money to me.

I really like your "Physics of the Impossible," btw! Big fan of science.

It was an April Fool's joke, albeit one with some great factual basis.

What I think SHOULD happen: Drop the cent now, and the 5-cent coin later.

What I think WILL Happen: Nothing now, nothing later.

Not really what I meant.

Keeping the cent and nickel is a government subsidy to fool a small ignorant minority into thinking inflation is not occurring.

A business makes several widgets with prices ranging from low end to the high end. Because of inflation the low end products eventually cost so much more to make that profit is negative. Unless they are a proven loss leader, that business will either raise prices or eliminate the product.

The mint cannot raise the price of the cent and nickel, nor are either a loss leader (actually, demand of the others will increase without them). The mint needs to eliminate them.

If they stop minting pennies, will that be the end of penny collections. Most penny collections were started by kids filling penny folders with coins found in change and then moving on to CRH and ultimately buying the 1914Ds and 1909Ss when they grow older and have cash to fill in those holes that have been stareing at them their whole life. Without coins in circulation to start the collections, and coin rolls from the bank, is anyone going to start the classic penny collection? Will anyone want to buy the 1914D or 1909Ss if the number of penny collections start to drop?

Also remember that when penny collecting was first popular cents were still useful in commerce for actual purchases. Nowadays they are only used to make change.