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<p>[QUOTE="CasualAg$, post: 3249238, member: 99311"]I’m tempted to say “half” but it’s never that simple. I would guess the gov’t pays the designer once for each design. I doubt the prep costs are significant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada solved a part of their problem by eliminating their penny. Maybe we should.</p><p><br /></p><p>From <i>Time...</i></p><p>“The cost to produce the one-cent coin increased to 1.5 cents during 2016, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/12/27/the-penny-cost-more-to-make-than-its-worth-again/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/12/27/the-penny-cost-more-to-make-than-its-worth-again/" rel="nofollow">the Wall Street Journal reported</a>. In 2015, the penny cost 1.43 cents to make, while in 2014, its production value was 1.66 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite efforts to cut the costs of manufacturing the <a href="http://time.com/money/4300975/get-rid-of-penny-jacob-lew/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://time.com/money/4300975/get-rid-of-penny-jacob-lew/" rel="nofollow">copper coin</a>, it seems unlikely that the cost of making it will ever sink below one cent.”</p><p><br /></p><p>2016 Nickels cost 6.32 cents each to produce per Coin News.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CasualAg$, post: 3249238, member: 99311"]I’m tempted to say “half” but it’s never that simple. I would guess the gov’t pays the designer once for each design. I doubt the prep costs are significant. Canada solved a part of their problem by eliminating their penny. Maybe we should. From [I]Time...[/I] “The cost to produce the one-cent coin increased to 1.5 cents during 2016, [URL='http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/12/27/the-penny-cost-more-to-make-than-its-worth-again/']the Wall Street Journal reported[/URL]. In 2015, the penny cost 1.43 cents to make, while in 2014, its production value was 1.66 cents. Despite efforts to cut the costs of manufacturing the [URL='http://time.com/money/4300975/get-rid-of-penny-jacob-lew/']copper coin[/URL], it seems unlikely that the cost of making it will ever sink below one cent.” 2016 Nickels cost 6.32 cents each to produce per Coin News.[/QUOTE]
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