The convicted felon has ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies. What are your fondest memories about pennies?

I remember finding Indian Head pennies in the 1950s in the rolls from bank, also got a Steely (1943 penny) at the supermarket twenty years ago.

Canada got rid of our penny years ago , and we adapted pretty quick.

@SQUEEKY2 I don’t have a problem with this policy actually. They’ve been talking about this for years.

I still have 50 or so assorted old pennies, some are the 1943 steely ones, which are worth about…1 cent. If you have a 1943 copper penny you’re looking at some big bucks.

I also remember buying penny candy. As a very young girl I loved having pennies to put in my little coin purse which I put in my little purse.

I have a definite fondness for pennies, probably somewhat age-related, as a child I always thought they were so pretty and different. I really have no problem with them being discontinued.

@SQUEEKY2 Most or yours came south, they have been showing up in my pockets.

There has been an argument about pennies for a long time. Supposedly, it costs more than a penny to make a penny. I have always wanted to keep the penny. I wonder how many we actually need to make a year to keep them in circulation?

This is a complete non issue. Compared to other stuff going on.

^You mean like the bill trump signed to go back to plastic straws instead of paper?

@Blackberry Chill. Sometimes we just like to shoot the shit and have a little fun. Beats doomsday thinking all the time.

America is making politics fun again

We got rid of our pennies over 50 years ago. They seemed ridiculously huge and heavy but my hands were much smaller then. You could buy a “penny dainty” for one penny and they were also big, too big for my mouth and we used to break them up by smashing them against the kerb.

The USA spends over $190 million each year producing pennies. That nonsense should have stopped decades ago. Glad Trump is putting an end to that ridiculous waste.

My first memory of a penny was when I was about 4 years old sitting in a barbershop booster seat. A man in the barbershop gave me a shiny new penny. I thought it was the greatest thing ever.

I still have an interest in pennies. For years I collected mostly the solid copper pennies. Recently I learned that a 1982 D solid copper penny with a “small date” (it’s only slightly small) is rare and worth a big pile of money. I’ve been going through all my copper pennies and have found a few small date 1982 D pennies but they aren’t sold copper (zinc interior).

@smudges
You’re right, and I apologize. More than ever, I now know life is truly pointless.

I used to collect pennies. But at the time, pennies were worth something. Nowadays they are not worth the cost of production.

Yeah I think we all have a box of pennies somewhere

Not a problem at all except that Trump doesn’t have that power. Apparently Congress control the US Mint.

@janbb

Sad trombone sound

He doesn’t care about the separate branches of the US Government. It is just ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME and. Co-President Elon Musk because he’s got bucks.

I started coin collecting in 1962. I dreamed of finding a 1909 SVDB, but I never did.
However, I think I have a 1914 double D.

Then of course, we’ll always have Penny.

@seawulf575 I read that constitution workers use pennies as washers by drilling a hole in them.

The USA should also do away with the paper $1 and $5 bills to save money. They only last about 5 years. And a $1 and $5 coins last pretty much indefinitely.

How are we going to pay for this? Apparently we’re going to have to produce way more nickels as a result and those are something like $0.13 to produce…

There are millions of pennies in circulation so we won’t be lacking any in the near future. However, when the day comes that the decree comes down that we’re no longer going to use pennies, you know stores will round up instead of down, so if the total cost of something is 3.81 for example, they’re going to want 3.85, not 3.80. It may seem like just pennies but those few cents here, few cents there will add up, especially for the lower class who may be living hand to mouth.

My memory of pennies was my mom saying “find a penny, pick it up.”

Also, going to penny candy stores when I was little, where there was a lady standing behind a glass case that was full of all kinds of candy, and you’d say “I want one of those.” I want three of those.” and she would put the candy in a little paper bag and you’d give her the few cents total for it.

When I was little, some in my family were mad that a Hershey bar went up to 12 cents, from 7. Also, the cost of mailing a letter was less than 10 cents, in those days. Then, a penny or two had real significance. Now, not so much. Now, if people drop a penny on the floor, they often leave it there because picking it up may show that they’re cheap, or poor, or maybe it’s not worth bending over to pick up a mere penny.

@jca2 Here in Canada when we gave up the penny, it was round up or down, example price was $1.26 then it would be $1.25 but if it was 27 then it would round up to 30, amazing how most times it always was in the stores favor.

We use so much less cash now I would think the expense for the government is going down over time.

There is talk of going towards a cashless society, which I’m against.

Then you also have crypto currency. There is a lot of crazy shit going on.

If the penny is going to disappear I wonder if it will become legal to melt down copper pennies for their copper.

Copper pennies are over 97% zinc nowadays. Not copper. The copper color comes from copper plating. They haven’t been made of mostly copper since 1982.