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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Ridiculous. The zinc in the coin isn't that much cheaper than copper!
Probably a result of zinc lobbyists, now that the cent is leaving production. Plus the Mint has incoming damaged and retired Zincolns that can no longer be melted back into a usable metal.
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 United States
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Probably a result of zinc lobbyists, now that the cent is leaving production. Most definitely. Artazn. AKA, Big Zinc.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Was just going to say, the U.S. must have a heck of a zinc lobby. .  |
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United States
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Why else do you think we kept making cents long past their expiration date?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2513 Posts |
geez... a sure sign of circling the drain...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19986 Posts |
Hey, those zinc guys need to find another use for all their surplus since the penny ended production!  Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Pillar of the Community
United States
642 Posts |
How fast will it take for a zinkle to rot? Maybe just skip this step and get rid of the nickle.
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United States
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Hey, those zinc guys need to find another use for all their surplus since the penny ended production! We would all be better off if they shifted their effort towards battery technology. Look out, Big Lithium.  |
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United States
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Maybe just skip this step and get rid of the nickle.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Oh boy. It's going to be just like the cent all over again!  Errers and Varietys.
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United States
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... and here we all thought that zinc rot was going to be a thing of the past... (think again) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
577 Posts |
This has been anticipated for decades.
The Cent should've been shelved in 1982 instead of switching to zinc Cents.
The 75% copper Nickel has clearly been living on borrowed time for decades.
Like the Cent, it should just be discontinued rather than producing a zombie Nickel.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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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. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
Edited by BadThad
Today 5H 38M ago
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AI Response: https://www.google.com/search?q=how...zaZM&csuir=1Quote:
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. Edited by BadThad
Today 5H 36M ago
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