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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 26088693, member: 66&quot;]Wouldn&#039;t help. The overhead (cost of manufacturing) is over 2 cents not including the cost of materials.&nbsp; Even if whatever you made them out of was given to the mint for free, they would still be making them at a loss.&nbsp; Aluminim isn&#039;t a very good choice either.&nbsp; The aluminum oxide coating on the planchets is hard on the dies resulting in reduced die life, and when run through high speed counting/handing machines they have a tendency to cold weld themselves together.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True, but if they stopped making the cent they&#039;d make $80+ million dollars more.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The seigniorage profits are transferred via a book keeping entry into the Treasury General Fund from which it can be spent like any other money.&nbsp; The mint doesn&#039;t transfer all of it though, part of it is retained and used for the operating funds of the Mint.&nbsp; This is why the Mint does not receive any appropriations (tax money) from the Congress.&nbsp; They are self funding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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