[cripplecreek]

The zinc barrons have a deathgrip on us all.

[Tempest]

The crazies need something to get uproarious about.

[al baby]

Yes i use mine to pee with

[CodeToad]

Considering they will be worth about 1/1,000,000th of a current value dollar soon, nope.

[allmost]

All your gasoline, grocery, general retail,etc. taxes rounded up to the nearest nickel? A %6 tax would become ten.

[Names Ash Housewares]

They do not.
Perhaps for sales tax increases they do.

The time wasted counting these out is silly.

People won’t even pick them up off the ground.

Caution strong language, but funny!....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FffTJk-gFKc

I love the artwork of the new coins though but..
Honor Lincoln some other way!

[gunnyg]

“Do Pennies make SENSE?”
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No, but neither do dollars/$$$$$ make sense—else why would “h” be shoveling them by the trillions down his gubmint blackhole?

[earlJam]

Get ready for the Obama penny. It has already started.

[KarlInOhio]

The last time the US got rid of a coin was the half cent in 1857. A half cent back then is worth about ten cents now. Getting rid of it was the equivalent of dumping the penny, nickel and dime now and just using quarters as the smallest value coin. It is long past time to dump the penny.

[JenB987]

Yes. They are quite useful to purchase Swedish Fish.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Do Pennies make SENSE?"

They sure work great in my fuse box!

[Badeye]

We lose several billion dollars every year because we keep making pennies from what I recall.

[Axenolith]

Zinc pennies SUCK! The rapidly decompose in the ground to pitted and holed crap and the numbers minted today insures that the average relatively un-detected old city park is going to have thousands of them to noodle through to get to the good stuff when metal detecting.

They also contaminate the soil and poison anything that ingests them (dogs, kids, geese, etc...)

The top row here is post 1965 Quarters, then dimes, then 1959-82 Lincoln Memorial cents. The pennies around the key are zincs, along with a few nickels and lawnmower clipped coins. The bottom demonstrates the resilience of real money, wheat cents to the 20's and silver dimes as old as 1917-S (S being the mark for San Francisco's mint). This is from a single hunt in December. Save the coppers, cull them from circulation and enforce Greshams Law!

[cotton1706]

I think they make cents. (couldn’t resist!)

[evets]

No, but dollars make scents!

[ThomasThomas]

We need them so when you go places that have those machines that for 1.00 will smash a penny so you can remember where you went.

[Alberta's Child]

Here's an interesting little item about the history of Lincoln pennies . . .

During World War II the U.S. government needed copper for the production of ammunition, so for one year (1943) the Lincoln penny was actually produced with steel instead of copper.

There are still a bunch of these in circulation, but it's hard to find any of them with their original shiny luster because the steel corrodes very easily over time.

[caver]

All the Lincoln haters here on FR would probably like to get rid of the penny.

[mysterio]

Here's the new penny design :

[Waco]

This may be good time to revalue the currency, 1 for 10. A dime would buy what a dollar did. COPPER Would be 20-30 cents/lb. and you cold make several hundred of them out of a pound.