[Wayne07]

There have been repeated calls to ban the penny in the US as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/business/coin-shortage-penny.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/14/890435359/is-it-time-to-kill-the-penny

[Jim Noble]

“There have been repeated calls to ban the penny”

Good.

We need completely new coinage to reflect the massive loss of value since 1964.

$20, $10, $5, $2.50, $1, $0.50 and a brass $0.25 to replace the penny.

[Sans-Culotte]

There have been repeated calls to ban the penny in the US as well.

I read that it costs more to make a penny than the penny is worth. If that is the case it should be banned.