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Originally Posted by krispy  ***Sorry, but you haven't really made any point of view here nor taken a side in the debate. This is just restating the issues of the debate and also repeating what I offered to the forum in the informative article linked to. As you said, you 'personally don't care' which is troubling since you added "2 cents" to the thread and this is a numismatic issue as well as a forum for thoughts and opinions therein. I'd enjoy knowing what you and others think, especially from a numismatists POV, and what solutions there might be to the issue... and I thought you cared! =) |
My response was to your ridiculing the web site. All I have said is that their statement the cent has become almost worthless and that their stamping can add value to someone is a valid point. The cent is basically worthless...what can you buy for a cent? Nothing. Would a symbol like this mean something to someone...yes, it probably would. It might not to you or I, but to someone it would. You're comment of "LOL" to their statement that "The penny is the least of our coins in America and to many people, it is almost worthless. Though some find it hard to believe that something with such a small monetary value can mean so much just by stamping a cross into it" was both
rude and
insensitive. That was my "2 cents" to this discussion.
Personally, I think it would be kind of a neat find in my change to find one of these. I tend to like finding various unique stampings on coins and I hang on to them as "fun finds." As for the government discontinuing the cent or not...that's what I don't care about. If it was up to me, I would get rid of it because it is worthless...retailers would adapt. But, in the end...I really don't care (same goes for the half dollar).
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