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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1048735, member: 66&quot;]Closer to 25 to 35 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, if they stopped making cents today within a years time for all practical purposes they would all be gone from circulation.&nbsp; Since the cent tends to be used once or twice and then thrown in a jar, within a month or two we would start hearing about a cent shortage.&nbsp; Within three months there will be appeals for people to turn in their cents and shortly therafter banks and businesses will be paying a premium for them&nbsp; While this will bring some cents back on th market it will also tend to increase hoarding because the coins are &quot;scarce&quot; and in hope of getting even more later.&nbsp; Within four months business will be using pieces of candy or gum to make change.&nbsp; By six months business will be rounding all transactions without being forced to just because they can&#039;t get cents.&nbsp; By nine months the rounding practice will for all practical purposes be universal.&nbsp; Businesses will stop asking for cents and any that do come back to the banks will be returned to the Fed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Right!&nbsp; Those girls have been dancing for dollar tips for a long time.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t you heard of inflation?&nbsp; Don&#039;t they deserve an increase to a two dollar tip?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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