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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 334853, member: 4626&quot;]I don&#039;t live in Canada but I&#039;m willing to guess that the pros and cons for Canada eliminating the penny are probably about the same as the US&#039;s.&nbsp; You think though that the Royal Canadian Mint would include coin collectors in their discussion though considering that&#039;s a large part of their revenue.&nbsp; Unless that&#039;s what they&#039;re calling &quot;coin accumulators.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>However Canada has one up on us, they succesfully eliminated their $1 bill and replaced it entirely with a coin.&nbsp; They also got rid of their $2 bill (why the same people who favor getting rid of US&#039;s $1 bill never mention the $2 bill confuses me; that bill is so little used you&#039;d think getting rid of it would be easy!).&nbsp; I&#039;m sure some people raised objections, but in the end they overcame them for the sake of practicality and economy.&nbsp; Based on the track record I&#039;d predict that if enough of a movement existed to get rid of Canada&#039;s penny, it would more likely succeed than in the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for collecting issues I wouldn&#039;t care all that much lol, but I only collect non-US coins by type, not by series (that applies to most US coins too), and already have several Canadian cents anyway, so I have no stake in this from a coin collecting perspective.&nbsp; If they make a new cent, I&#039;d add it to my collection, but if they don&#039;t, no big deal to me.&nbsp; I&#039;d imagine even a lot of collectors would feel the same way and colecting mostly zinc cents by series is something done largely as a force of habit than anything else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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