*** Pennies will become valuable collectors items, except everyone and their crazy uncle will know that and hoard them, which will ensure they’re never valuable and take them out of circulation very quickly.
In a thousand years archeologists will be finding penny hoards that people hid in their house somewhere and then forgot about or died.
But there’s no reason not to hang on to them either.
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Canada did away with their pennies back in 2012. Still finding them around though.
Japan still makes and uses the 1 Yen coin, worth about 0.0066 dollars. They are made out of aluminum.
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“In a thousand years archeologists will be finding penny hoards that people hid in their house somewhere and then forgot about or died.”
I’m gonna get a bit more creative than that with my hoards LOL
During the war we had hard cardboard tokens. No a super practical option but makes one think a bit. Maybe there is a high density plastic that would work? A pinch of metallic dust might get them to work in coin op machines. The grocery store gives me change in a handful so making those machines obsolete would be a downer.