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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Making change
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 14:04:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-12, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2025-05-11 10:47 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> On 2025-05-10, ItsJoanNotJoAnn <ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net> wrote:
>> 
>>
>> I literally haven't used change since the pandemic started (March 15,
>> 2020) for me. I still have some change in my truck, but it's starting to
>> get an aged patina on it. Is old metal money worth anything? Is any
>> metal money worth anything? Let's drop the decimal after the dollar
>> sign and move on.
>> Wait! Paper pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, that's the ticket!
>> Shut down the Treasury coin minters! I should get in touch with Elon.
>> DOGE! DOGE! DOGE!
>> Alas, a printed penny piece of paper is still worth more than a penny,
>> and I don't want my taxes to pay for it. :(
>
> We stopped using pennies more than a decade ago. Nobody misses them. 
> Totals are round up or down. It was a real waste to have a heavy coin 
> that was worth so little.  

A U.S. penny weighs 2.5 grams.  Not a lot for the consumer.  Quite
a bit for the businesses, banks, and mints that have to deal with
them in quantity.

> Gone are the days when a kid could go into a 
> candy store and waste 10 minutes of the store owner's time figuring out 
> how much of each he could get with his three pennies.

Ten minutes?  Amateur.

There was a store right across the street from my grade school
that sold mostly candy, although I bet they had cigarettes and
grownup stuff as well.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton