Bluegill wrote:If the Mint wants to produce Cu (or Zn) specimens for collectors the way they do for Halves, let them. If they can make a profit from it, by all means do so. But mint 50 million a year at a loss to replenish what we're trying to eliminate, or to accommodate collectors, kinda defeats the whole purpose of cancelling it in the first place.
You're missing the point.
There still needs to be some pennis made for normal commercial use. You can't exactly cut that off.