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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26051343, member: 43872&quot;]I&#039;ll believe it when I see it.&nbsp; Cents have cost more to produce than they are worth since the 1970s.&nbsp; Although not worth much, they are backed by some very powerful groups, particularly the mining industry, where the loss of cent coins would mean a significant drop in demand for both copper and zinc.&nbsp; There are businesses that use them, I&#039;m told.&nbsp; If so, cents should be sold to them at cost, whatever that is that month.&nbsp; Sentimentally, I&#039;d hate to see them go; my first introduction to coin collecting was with cents.&nbsp; But realistically, they should either be ended as a denomination or replaced with something cheaper, like aluminum.&nbsp; Other countries have done that for years for their nearly worthless denominations.&nbsp; They could even use plastic like the old sales tax tokens.&nbsp; The mint could stop making them for circulation but continue to make them in special sets like proof sets for those who really wanted them to continue.&nbsp; They could even go back to making them out of 95% copper for these sets, or silver for that matter, and sell them at huge profits, like they do the modern Morgan and Peace silver dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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