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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2288239, member: 68&quot;]For many years there were about 20% coppers even as they were being hoarded.&nbsp; I figured this was because the zincs rot away so quickly that they couldn&#039;t accumulate even as the coppers were disappearing.&nbsp; The last couple years the percentage of coppers is finally beginning to drop.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing the mint will be swamped making 10 billion a year just to replace the rotting cents.&nbsp; At some point they&#039;ll have to put an end to the madness.&nbsp; This will happen very soon after there&#039;s a real economic recovery.&nbsp; They simply aren&#039;t going to want to produce 20 billion cents per year at a cost of about a billion dollars. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It will be interesting to see what one cent coins survive after the mint recalls them.&nbsp; Nice AU 1966&#039;s will be somewhat uncommon but what about &#039;84-D&#039;s?&nbsp; Most of these are already rotted away and the survivors are stained, gouged, ugly, and have oxide on them.&nbsp; Even mint set coins are a fright much of the time. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The penny greatly outlived its usefulness.&nbsp; In a sane world it would have been discontinued in 1974 but then a lot of very interesting and potentially valuable coins would never have been made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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