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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 26057347, member: 66"]Because then they will cost close 5+ cents each and you can't mint 2/3rds less because the new copper cents will continued to disappear from circulation just like the current zinc ones do (probably even faster since they will no have metal in them that is worth considerably more than the face value of the coin) and you will still need more cents to supply the needs of commerce.  As long as you make coins for circulation you will still need billions of them no matter what they are made of. Of if you DO only make 1/3 of the number you previously made, you will have a serious coin shortage and the businesses will quickly have to go to rounding up and down anyway.  They don't make 4 to 8 billion new cents every year because the economy has grown so much they need that many more, they mint them to replace the coins that get dumped into change jars and removed from circulation each year.  To a very large extent the cent is a one way coin from Mint to Bank to Business to consumer to jar.  And only a small percentage ever go back from Jar to bank to do multiple rounds.[/QUOTE]