1983 D cent 2.7grams

And your point is?

 

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The point, is a joke you know ha ha.
Just like me.... now what do all got to say about that, cause that's how I feel or more like an outsider.
Lets see now, how long or what dose someone need to know before they can make jokes or get personal with someone around here?
Or is it that I am not funny lol.

 

Don't quit your day job.

 

Also have the same coin weighing 2.7 grams

 

Hey teach. Don't let them get you down. (Boy this is an old post come back to haunt somebody.)Lol they all mean well, just doesn't always come across like it should have. Maybe THEY thought they were funny and weren't AT ALL. Ha. Anyway don't let that keep you away.
Hell, I'm getting ready to go get shot down on another page with a question that I have.
Later

 

Ugh. Bad flashback.

 

Chris I collect the dang things and I AGREE with you. I collect 1909 thru 1982 so new coins aren’t even on my radar. Dang Zincolns.

 

OK it's an old thread. But for the new post from today (Ron111).
Most of the zinc cents are supposed to weigh 2.5 grams. But there is an accepted tolerance weight of +/- .13 grams. Which makes the range 2.37-2.63.
At 2.7 even if it is slightly above that range, it's not significant enough to make a difference in terms of value. .01 cent. Also, my scale which is very accurate, only
weighs to the first tenth of a gram. So, if yours does the same, a coin that might weigh 2.65 (if calibrated exactly) could show as 2.7, and now you are only 2 hundredths of a gram heavy. When talking about errors, the more dramatic the better.

 

Thanks for the info

 

Blaspheme!

 

While Chris' post is almost 4 years old, it is a valid question, and as many people have pointed out in several other threads, there is no point to the penny anymore.
The expense (raw materials, salaries, equipment in producing, rolling, distributing, etc.), the uselessness of such a denomination when people are moving away from cash transactions. There are around a trillion cents in circulation, and when those wear out, (30-100 years) rounding up or down to the nearest nickel is not a big deal. When checks and credit cards would still record the exact amount, only cash transactions would need to be rounded. And at the end of the year you wouldn't even be plus or minus 50 cents.
People claim if we stop producing pennies, they will be hoarded and there will be a shortage in only a few years. Not likely considering how many there are and the value of the zinc cents are unlikely to increase for 100 years.
Canada has not collapsed and they got rid of the cent (and the dollar bill).

 

My prediction is once they stop making them they will be effectively gone from circulation within about one year.

People won't be hoarding them because they will be valuable. Just the opposite. People don't carry and use cents because they have no real value. They don't go back to banks anywhere near as fast as they leave banks to businesses for making change. Right now that shortfall is made up by the mints making another 8 or 9 billion of them a year. Once they stop, businesses will quickly find they can't get cents anymore and will HAVE to start rounding. Once that happens businesses will stop asking for banks for cents. Then when cents DO come back in from hoards there will be no one asking for them and the banks will send them back to the Fed.

Interesting question for our Canadian members here. Have the Canadian cents disappeared from circulation? And if so how long did it take?

 

@Mernskeeter


If we got rid of the penny then we'd also would have to confiscate all of them and melt them to make swords.

Then, and only then, would the constant barrage of "is this a mint error" on cents stop.

... y'all may continue the cent flogging ...

 

Regarding the cent/penny going by the wayside, I wouldn’t be surprised if sometime in the future they aren’t made for circulation but are still made for collectors. This would be similar to what happened to the half dollar, and would probably be a good compromise.

 

If the Cent is no longer produced then what coin is Lincoln going to be on?

 

The 2-1/2 cent piece of course, silly.

 

LMAO Great comment. It only took 4 hours and 4 minutes for a comeback.

 

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So you thought it a grand idea to use a years-old thread, one from years before you even joined this forum, to attack the membership? You know, the same membership you clearly expect to answer your own questions?

Surely you took the time to look into Teachmind’s posting history as well as objectively investigated to learn if there may have been a reason for the responses given, right?

Of course not, and why bother when making ignorant assumptions is just so much fun! Or maybe you just thought you were funny and weren’t, AT ALL?

Think first, then post.