Melt them down and make little statues of DJT. That’ll drive the media and TDS sufferers nuts.

Take em...and you can make nickels out of whatever metal is cheapest...along with dimes and quarters why is this an issue,? lol

Where was Illinois vast influence when Lincoln's statue was removed in Boston in 2020? I don't think Trump gives to poos who's face is on the coin.

You voted for Kamala?

People with TDS are going to have a long four years. Thats okay, we Conservatives just had a long four years with the man with Dementia

Why not eliminate the nickel too? Who cares who buys back what if it increases prices? Maybe we should go to card only….there’s only a 3-4% charge for that.

Nice catch Keith. I shoulda knowd that. I have trimes and two cents pieces. Do you reckon they ditched those two coins just to simplify making change?

The one dollar bill could be next, in favor of a coin.

this and my states sales tax is 7% hard to do that without pennies.

They tried that with the dollar coins not too long ago and didn't catch on. People rather deal with with folding money. Plus it's cheaper to make folding money though the lifespan is shorter.

Mentally defective? Considering it costs almost 4 cents to make a one cent coin, it's called common sense, a term the left isn't familiar with.

Pennies are for change, don't tell me ypu walk around with a pocket full of change and pay with it. It's been done successfully in other countries, no reason we can't figure it out also. It all works out in the end with rounding. Final prices ending in 1, 2, 8 and 9 get rounded to 0, prices ending in 3, 4, 6 and 7 round to 5. And when you pay with card you pay the exact amount.

tlguy. you notice when rounding you always round up. And some of us like paying with cash. Yes I pay with a card more than I like since I don't get to the bank often or collect rent from the rent house that always pays in cash.

Going to a cashless society I figured would be brought up. you can be locked out of buying and selling with the push of a button. That's the direction we are headed And if you enjoy freedom cash needs to be keep alive.

reminds me of my Dad. Every time he got change he'd stow away any wheat pennies. Been doing that since the '40's.
Of course he never did anything with them. After hoarding for 6 decades he couldn't let go.
So after he died my Mom told me to get rid of all his coins that he squirreled away.
I got .02 for every wheat penny and I got a list of desirable ones. Went thru all those pennies to find the desirable ones.
End up with about 1/2 dozen "desirable" ones. Trouble is they were all worn and not worth much. After all like most rare collectable stuff its all about condition.

End result of all his hoarding was just over $200. Yes, he had over 10,000 wheat pennies.
6 decades of hoarding for what? $100. Not worth the effort in my mind.

The argument could be made that he lost money on his hoarding due to inflation.

a penny on 1975 is now worth six of them. If he'd used them instead of hoarding them he'd gotten more value out of them.

Tommy didnt run far enough.

Not even close to "always rounding up." For purchases ending in 1 and 2 you round down to 0. For purchases ending in 6 and 7 you round down to 5. So you round down literally half the time. I think someone from Canada posted that they always stop the gas pump on a price ending in 2 or 7 so they get that 2 cents of gas for free!

You mean the one your standing behind in the checkout line? LOL

When I was a kid we had metal, then little plastic coins for mills, .1 and. 5 cents, supposed to have been for paying taxes, like on gasoline.

I remember these for pennies and other change

I remember those little coin purses used to have bank and other business logos on them, to advertise the companies that gave them to you. I don't think Ive seen a new one of those since the late seventies.

Keith

My dad still has one of those from the bank his father in law worked at back in the day. He uses it to hold his nickels, dimes and quarters for playing cards at the mens club. No pennies allowed.