Honestly I just think it’s something the Denver mint does and I’ve noticed it for at least 20 years now. Denver coins (at least the cupronickel and cupronickel plated ones) tend to have a glossier finish than their Philadelphia counterparts. But then the design also seems less sharply struck to me too when the finishes are like that

Maybe it’s just coins struck from a freshly (but harshly) repolished die or maybe it’s just what ever-so-slightly weaker strikes look like because the difference isn’t there for Mint sets..

Kaiser,

Yep! And not to mention Jarden Zinc Co. that supplies the Mint with most of the zinc cent planchets. Big business equals big power in Congress.

NumisdudeTX

Sir Kaiser-

I think the Mint wants to do that, too!

Oh no, I get it. It is rather pointless for the United States to keep issuing the cent given its almost utter lack of purchasing power (and probably, realistically due to inflation over the years, the nickel and dime and even quarter by this point). But I think, like all collectors, the cent will always be with us in our hearts.

Also, the loss of the cent and nickel would be a shame if only because they are the last two denominations where older dates can still be found. I mean, yeah, one will get an anomalous silver dime or quarter but realistically the wall for those denominations is 1965. The cent can still be regularly found back into the mid 1940s (and occasionally much earlier) and the nickel still yields dates from the ’40s and ’50s as well (and if you’re really lucky, out pops a probably dateless Buffalo nickel)

Yeah, sometimes it is a slow burn. But at least give me credit for refraining from the syrup lady moving up to a Jackson. Which is poetic in a way, as she would be avenging the butter lady being forced to move by the aforementioned tenant on the $20. Looks like it came full circle. I wonder if this is the same level of redemption England felt when they erased George Washington from the British military leaders commemorative with Hessian leaders.

Perhaps it is the location of the mines. Where in the earth it is mined, with what other minerals or chemocal reactions that may slightly change it enough that it makes a slight spectrum change. Like heavy water. Or perhaps as it ages or decays it changed shade. Or faster or slower decay. I’m thinking more like diamonds. Even in the same river, or mine the quality of each diamond varies not only in clarity, but color too. Pink, chocolate. White gold, rose gold, yellow gold. No yelling what happens when blackholes erupt or stars implode, or how cosmic dust mixes together and forms Voltron.

Yeah. Kaiser and major d and senza mike hunt got me to cross the threshold and start posting here. Kaiser like fog horn leg horn, and I’m more like Wylie coyote – “genius”. (According to his business card). I almost had em as a dik dastardly but can’t place who his Mutley would be. Or perhaps the gentleman from are you being served. But stick around long enough and you’ll notice I’m always quick and to the point, none of those Greek epics like others on here. Yall know who you are.

I tried to get a roll of quarters at credit union today. No dice. Asked for roll of half dollars. No dice. Makes you wonder where businesses get theirs from. As we all know No veterans ever open businesses with a credit union only for service members and family. She was also quite rude about it. I was gonna go to chase but was afraid I’d get tubes of rocks.

Maybe they have perfected sky net already and the coin is made from the skeleton of the melted terminator. I guess I’ll be back is more catchy than I’ll be obverse.

Sam-I-Am,

You are right for sure. The Mint wants to stop the cents & 5-cent coinage, but the USA Congress doesn’t due to selfish reasons.

NumisdudeTX