Comments on: U.S. Mint Produces Over 6.5 Billion Coins for Circulation in First Half of 2019

By: Munzen

Munzen — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:55:15 +0000

In reply to c_q. We should just bite the bullet and get rid of the wasteful coin, the same way half-cents and three-cent coins were eliminated. But so long as Congress is involved, NOTHING will change. They’re in the thrall of the zinc lobby just like they listen to the firm that makes paper for $1 bills. Plus the Illinois delegation will go ballistic over "disrespecting" Lincoln or some other grandstanding. Actually there’s no reason the half dollar shouldn’t be brought back, though probably in a smaller size and maybe on a multi sided planchet. I’m just old enough to remember before 1964 when halves circulated regularly; you hardly ever got piles of quarters in change and no one thought twice about using halves. In retrospect the Mint made two monumental blunders by not resuming the Franklin design and not switching to cupronickel in 1965.

By: Chas Barber

Chas Barber — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:21:51 +0000

And you know only 2,100,000,000 were cents!

By: c_q

c_q — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:17:08 +0000

just stop the lincoln cents already. Just put it in the same category as half dollars, only made for proof/mint sets. There’s trillions of them out in the wild, that should be enough.

By: some guy

some guy — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:11:47 +0000

What a waste, still cranking out billions of worthless pennies at a loss. They end up in the garbage. One cent is only worth 1% of what one cent was in 1909. Follow the lead of sane countries like Canada and Australia who sensibly stopped minting their worthless one-cent coins.