US Penny
Is there any real use for it?? I mean seriously, I was just thinking about that. Why do we still have pennies? Why not just stop making them?
Interesting: There are approx. 200,035,318,672 pennies in US circulation. Anyone want to take a guess at how many dollars that is? or how much that would weigh if you collected them all??? lol wow.
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No, there is no use for it. It's a huge waste of money and resources. And now they're making NEW pennies! That means that someone somewhere used my tax dollars to pay someone to retool the #$@&* mint to strike new versions of useless coins that no one wants. Brilliant. Clearly there was no better use for those materials, or the man-hours involved.
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I vote we melt them all down and create a giant statue of Abraham Lincoln and put it next to the Statue of Liberty because she looks kind of lonely.
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Right on. At least it would be used for *something*. Right now they're just an annoyance that most of the people that use them would rather do without.
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That would be 2,000,353,186.72 (thats 2 billion three hundred fifty three thousand one hundred eighty six dollars and sevety two cents)Originally Posted by Zephik
It would weight approx. 5,000,882,966.80 grams if they were all made after 1982. More if made before!
-CollinstheClown
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If we didn't have pennies they'd have to change all of the $xx.00, $xx.95 and $xx.99's to something odd like $xx.92.
I think that would be more annoying than having pennies. Designing the penny and applying it probably took less than 5 cents of our tax dollars so I don't have a problem with it. It's been a tradition, if you will, of the US to change currency design. As a collector, I feel it's somewhat cool.
5 000 882 967 grams = 11025060 pounds
~5,500 tons
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That's a lot of weight! Now just for comparison, how much does the Statue of Liberty weigh?
Why couldn't they just round everything off to the nearest nickle? Something costs a dollar, then pay a dollar. Tax? Round it off to the nearest nickle?
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My thought exactly.
As for changing them, it took more than 5 cents. Maybe 5 cents of MY money, yes, but it was a lot more than 5 cents. How many dies did they have to cast? How much labor went into the design? It's a small number in the grand scheme of things but it's absolutely pointless and could have been better used elsewhere. Some family in Philadelphia, Denver or San Francisco would have been thrilled to have that money and you and I would never have known the difference.
Wouldn't it be just perfect if we found out that the dies were imported from China?
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Because someone needs to make a case from them
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Thats awesome! Forget the melting part of my statue, just solder them all together! lol
Not too bad of a price either. Say it takes 700 pennies to create a case, that's only 7 dollars. lol
Even it took 7000 pennies, that's only 70 dollars and I have a feeling that would be enough to create multiple cases.
Why can't you buy materials that cheap? If you bought that much copper or nickle circles it would cost you way more wouldn't it?
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