Not surprised coming from our "Peace" President.
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Oh those will be collectors items someday.
Also, why do we still have dimes?
Ah, iconoclastic "traditionalists": the oxymoronic morons of the century.
We are never recovering from this damage.
Coin collectors in 2000 years will have a blast! Not a nuclear blast though.
If we are not making the penny we should stop making the nickel and the dime.
This is just insult to injury
Yeah, we need to switch to quarters as the smallest coin and $10 as the largest. A beer should be a coin.
A beer should be no more than $5...
A pint should cost its abv, basically
Cartoonish levels of villainy.
Mask off imperialism.
At least it's honest.
Mask off imperialism.
Looks pretty fascist.
At least they're consistent, I'll give them that
nuts as all his stuff but ill admit its a better representation of his administration.
War mongers did what?
I don't get why coin money is made so often. I get quarters all the time from before they printed them with states on the back and they work fine.
Why always recycling and reprinting metal money. ?
Such a waste of money.
Like this whole penny deal.
You are telling me there is a shortage of pennies when most people use digital money.
What about all the pennies that have been made in the last 50 years ?
Stop recycling the old ones.
Just keep what we have and we wouldn't have a shortage.
Am I right or am I missing some fundamental reason why coin money keeps being made and coins that are perfectly good keep getting "recycled". ?
Cash physically wears out over time, so some amount needs to be re-minted each year to replace the ones that are too worn to be used as currency. In the case of bills, most countries also make updates to the design and materials in an attempt to deter counterfeiting. Coin usually gets small cosmetic changes every so often, like in Canada, every so often the "heads" side is updated with a new portrait of the monarch (currently King Charles)
I definitely see why paper money needs remade all the time. But coins do seem to last way longer. I don't get how there could possibly be a shortage of pennies unless they are recycling them in mass, unnecessarily.
Maybe if it were a closed loop system, but my intuition says that’s far from the case. I’ve seen buckets of pennies saved… whole tens of dollars, taking up an entire shoebox vault, just to never be touched. I’ve seen pennies on the road, desert, forests, … people throw them into fountains, lakes… all that, and then yes they also wear down slowly too.
Hm... Yeah that's something. But do you think that outpaces the use of physical money being replaced by digital. ?
Might be hard to know.
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