Mint Starts Trial Nickel & Penny Composition Tests

[cesariojpn]

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.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

So normal commercial use is for the mint to make them.. the coin processors deliver them to the banks.. the banks sell them to the stores.. the stores give them out in change. The customers accumulate them in sock drawers.

[cesariojpn]

So normal commercial use is for the mint to make them.. the coin processors deliver them to the banks.. the banks sell them to the stores.. the stores give them out in change. The customers accumulate them in sock drawers.

Which comes out in a few years after they find out that it ain't worth more than 50 cents.