Do you favor the continued minting of US One Cent coins?

A poll to accompany elaine 1970's thread: http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t50104/

Do you favor the continued minting of US One Cent coins in the year(s) after the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial Commemorative Cents are produced?

WARNING: THIS IS A PUBLIC POLL! IF YOU PARTICIPATE OTHERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HOW YOU VOTED!

 

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YES!!!!!!
Regardless of logistics, I love the Lincoln Cent!

 

They should be recalled for proper disposal.

It makes no sense to have these toxic discs in homes where young children and babies are exposed to them. It's not unusual for children to swallow such thing and a scratch in the plating can cause it to be fatal to very small children. Dogs are known to have been killed by them.

I like pennies as much as the next guy but these are a drain on the economy and a threat to the helpless.

 

C'mon Cladking
I played with Mercury and ate paint chips as a kid. Ran with scissors as well. Climbed trees and had a skateboard. Licked a frog too. Rode my Schwinn without a helmet. Heck, I even went to restauraunts where they use to smoke cigarettes. Snuck a beer when I was 15. Married a redhead. Twice.


Danger Danger Danger Will Robinson

I shrug it off

 

For very unscientific and impractical reasons I voted yes.

Why not? I look at it this way before the state quarters came along how did SOOOOOO many kids get into coin collecting?
Ah yes - the "penny" of course. You could get them in change and they were cheap.

The Lincoln influenced me as a child although I don't actively collect them now. I still have old 2x2s with nice red 1971 Lincolns that I pulled from circulaton as a child and graded as XF as they couldn't be uncirculated because I got them in change. I was 9 at the time.
I still have those coins and the writing of a 9 year old clembo is on the 2x2s.

Not cost effective? Fine make them out of aluminum and while you're at it change the design. I'd love to see an aluminum Flying Eagle dated 2010. Wonder what it would look like in proof?

Call me an old softy but even though I don't collect them I have every wheatie except the 09SVDB, 22, and 55DDO.
They're good for the hobby if nothing else.

 

Me too. I did a lot worse since I had access to all sorts of chemicals as well as radioactive isotopes and about everything else. People are still afraid of me in my home town and everyone's surprised I'm still around.

But the fact is that these things really are dangerous and can kill. Perhaps if they had any legitimate use that wouldn't be sufficient cause to recall them but the fact that they have a negative value is plenty good enough reason to rid the planet of them. ...just the circulating ones.

 

How true how true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon Cladking
I played with Mercury and ate paint chips as a kid. Ran with scissors as well. Climbed trees and had a skateboard. Licked a frog too. Rode my Schwinn without a helmet. Heck, I even went to restauraunts where they use to smoke cigarettes. Snuck a beer when I was 15. Married a redhead. Twice.

Good going Arizona I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!

I married a redhead once, wish I'd married her again lately.

What are we trying to prove with this "new age" purge ourselves with no risk of even having a life any longer? I don't know but a lot of it has gone too far. I personally have never known anyone that died, are even got sick from a coin whether it be copper, copper plated, silver, aluminum or silver. The proof is always "in the pudding".
My family doctor smoked non-filter Chesterfield's while he examined us when we were kids in the office. He passed away at about 86 years old, (wonder what happened!)
We are sort of safetying ourselves out of living in the past few years. The second hand smoke issue always gets me going a little. Look, if second hand smoke was as dangerous as they claim the whole nation of people over 50 years old would be dying of cancer right now. Heck, everybody smoked in the 50's and 60's - every baby boomer plus a few should keel over yesterday if it was so bad.
To be concerned about copper coated zinc cents is the very last thing in the world I will worry about today - we may just have to much time on our hands and wherever I feel I have too much time on my hands I go out and dig something up. Using a mattock and shovel and grubbing for about three hours always fixes it for me - after that I'm so pooped that everything else falls right into perspective.

 

What is this penny I keep hearing about?

 

I think they had them in Great Britain! I voted yes keep them. Call me centimental.

 

Good responses Ben and Jack. Funny! I don't believe in living by fear. I did a ton of crazy things as kid. I remember motorcycling miles from my home on an 80 Honda with a friend on the back at 7 years old. Now we are scared if our 10 years olds aren't supervised on our own streets. Of course statistically crime is worse and pedofiles have significantly multiplied in number. To answer the original post. KEEP the cent. I love it. I believe in the Lincoln. It helps our hobby. Others said it better than I am now and I am tired and off to bed.
BTW- Jack you didn't stay away for long to fix your website. Your even posting half-drugged from your sick meds (I am referencing another post). See: we are all drunk on this coin forum addiction. It's pretty healthy though and keeps me out of trouble. I do think it's hilarious when people post 100 X/day plus. WOW

 

How did I ever make it past a teenager? Both my parents smoked, then they drove me around in the car with no seatbelts (sometimes my dad had one too many), and I don't think bicycle helmets even existed. We had a cistern in the basement with the down downspots from the roof of the house connected to catch the rain coming down on the asbestos shingles while I nice and dry in the lead painted house. There has been a lot of activity lately concerning Lincoln himself, the new commemerative, and the new cent designs. Lot of activity here on Coin Talk concerning all of this to include more on the Memorial Cent lately. I will venture to say there are a lot of "new Lincoln collectors venturing into them for a lot of reasons. I don't think the cent will fall by the wayside for at least a few more years. I didn't always feel that way, but millions are returning to circulation due to the times we live in, so the mint has to produce less at least probably for the next few years. Selling the new cent rolls at the price the mint is getting for them doesn't hurt either. I think the paper dollar will fall by the wayside before the cent, and from a pure economic standpoint concerning our tax dollars this would be better.

 

Yes keep it!!
That's all we need is to have to pay a nickel more in tax on everything. You know they can't go without taxes. If anything change the content of it to make it more efficent.

 

Jack -- LOL Exactly what I was thinking too....had a schwinn with no helmet...used to lay in the back window of Dads '55 Buick Special at night looking at the stars on the way home, sis and I smoked a few old butts from the folks ashtray, sneaking in the chicken house to do it !
Somehow, we turned out pretty good - must have been a miracle !
Oh .....and my folks had over a 1,000 turkeys on the farm when I was 3 and 4 walking out in their yard, ladies would tell mom look out, I would get my eyes pecked out !

:goofer:


mjd

 

Yes why not I like collecting them LOL and as a matter of interest how many recorded deaths have there been due to someone ingesting a cent? check it out on google I did LOL

 

Although I've never licked a frog as Jack has done..lol, I have decided to be in favor of keeping the Lincoln Cent but I'd rather it be made of 95% copper, but with the price of copper where its at thats an unreasonable thought.

 

The purpose of the mint is to produce coinage to facilitate commerce. There is some underlying cost with abandoning the cent. Reprograming cash register's, payroll systems or any system or thing that currently rounds to the nearest cent. Then there is the breakage issue - whose is it? The customer, business or state. I'm sure most states would pass legislation claiming the breakage - which opens up more pain in the rear accounting issues for business.

 

What does "breakage" mean? Is this accounting terminology

 

save the penny.
http://www.pennies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=44

 

There is no cost in getting rid of the cent. There was no cost in getting rid of the half cent. Until everything in priced in nickels then everything is just rounded off and everyone comes out even. Except there will be no more fiddling with cents and there will be room in the cash register for a useful coin like the dollar.

Not only does everyone break even but we all come out ahead.

 

wow - there is apetition for everything on the net these days. Maybe I can find a kill the Sac series petition

RUben