Lincoln Cents

"To believe that in the short term there would not be some adverse conditions is a little myopic"

There may well be localized adverse conditions (ie your milk price may go up and you wont be happy about it). However Nationally I would be stunned if it even showed up as the slightest blip. It certainly didn't here or in the UK or the EU.

Hi Jim,

Well I think your country will be better off doing it. 5 years after the change you'll look back and wonder why you kept the cent for so long after all!

Mark

Keep it. Keep it. Keep it. Ya gotta admit they are cheap enough to actually collect. Just tell the mint to make less than 50 million or so, each of a different design. (Business strikes not bogus proofs at a profit). Perhaps change the reverses at the different mints instead of adding mintmarks. Put Geronimo or another Chief on the coin. Anything to make them more interesting and collectible. Goofy would make sense.

How many collectors out there got started as kids with the lowly cent? Who could afford more. Coin collectors should boycott all mint products if the Gov. dumps the cent.

My first Cherrypick was a 1955 DDO cent...Yes that one.. I was in first grade. It was 1959. I started in 1957... collecting cents. I am still at it.

Will my children and grandchildren be collectors?

Dump the politicians and keep the Cent.