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I've wondered how much smaller a bronze Lincoln Cent would need to be to contain approx 1 cent of copper, so I made this relative size comparison. Of course, the cent would need to be smaller still to account for production costs.  I seem to recall there were ancient coins around this size. They would certainly be easier to carry (and lose), and would possibly see less wear due to lessened mass. |
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Thats a small cent  . -64s  |
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LOL!
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Using the photo above, here's a cool way to visualize one cent's worth of copper: hold a cent up close to the screen and move it until it just covers the coin on the left. Now look at the coin at the right in relation to the cent you're holding in hand.  Edited by KurtS
05/31/2008 04:01 am
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Make it the size of the old Half Dime's that a winner in my book. but my poor eyes I will have to get an 30x just to see details? |
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And the earlier Canada "fishscale" 5c too. Then again, I believe a bronze coin that size would cost more than a cent to produce.It would have to be more on the scale of coins like these:  |
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It looks like the inflation coins you can buy in novelty shops.
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Don't forget the Panama "Pill." A coin made out of silver, in the denomination of 2 1/2 cents! The coin is smaller than the eraser end of a pencil.
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That's cool. What if we made that the new cent, turned the current Lincoln Cent into the new nickle, the nickle into the new dime, and the quarter into the new half-dollar? That would take care of inflation for a while. Maybe a short while... Edited by Kilroy
06/01/2008 12:55 am
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That's interesting, but how did come upon these sizes? If the thickness is held constant, the cent on the right looks much too small. The smaller cent has less than 20% of the area of the larger meaning a regular pre-'82 copper would be worth over 5 cents.
Hey - I'm a math geek! The smaller one needs to "grow" from 12mm to 18mm I'd say!
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That's interesting, but how did come upon these sizes? If the thickness is held constant, the cent on the right looks much too small. I didn't get too complicated here--so who knows if I'm accurate, LOL! I just read somewhere that a bronze cent has 2.4 cents of copper, so I went with 1/2.4 or .4166 and scaled the coin to that figure. Just a fun visual--nothing more! |
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Thanks KurtS - It is fun! Older bronze cents are worth holding on to for sure!
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If they were that small it would take me forever to fill my penny jar at home.
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I would feel sorry for the clerk when my kids dumped a bunch of pennies on the counter to buy a candy bar and he dropped one or two and had to find them.
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Kurt, do you think an old bag lie the Bull Durham, or golden Grain tobacco came in for your "roll-youir-own" smokes would be big enough to hold 5000 of those little dinky cents?
Dick
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