The Great Lincoln Cent Shortage Of 2025.

I went to a moving sale where a local guy was moving to Columbia and getting rid of everything. He told me he had 10 gallons of cents in a couple of 5 gallon buckets that he wanted to get rid of. Went back in a couple of days when he had time to get out everything he wanted to sell. Bought a load of silver from him at a great discount under spot and the 10 gallons of cents turned out to be one 2 gallon bucket. He had taken all the wheat cents but does not search for varieties. Bought the bucked with about $110 in fv for $100 bucks. I think this is a win. Will be good to have for the long winter ahead.

Needed to send some media mail out this past Tuesday. Paid cash. The USPS employee apologized for shorting me Three Cents in change as they had no pennies and no prospects of getting any. He didn't know when their tills would be set up for rounding up -- or down -- to accomodate cash transactions going forward. So it goes.

Policy should be to round all totals down, which means rounding all change returned up to the next nickel.

They will figure it out eventually. Canada did when they killed their cent 13 years ago. But then again, recent history has shown me that most Americans are content to fail where Canadians have succeeded.