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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2637608, member: 56842&quot;] <ul> <li>The U.S Mint estimates that the average life expectancy of paper currency lasts for as little as 18 months. The average cent lasts 25 years!</li> <li>The Mint produced its first circulating coins (11,178 copper cents) in 1793. Today there is more than $8 billion worth of coins circulating in the US and, in the past 30 years, the US Mint has minted over 300 billion coins, worth in excess of $15 billion. </li> <li>On Lincoln cents, President Lincoln faces to the right, while <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?action=fun_facts4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?action=fun_facts4" rel="nofollow">all other portraits on coins face to the left</a>. This was not done on purpose — it was simply the choice of the coin designer.</li> <li>Mint marks: P (2017 only), D, S. Under date on obverse. No mint marks used from 1965 to 1967, or in any year except 2017 at the Philadelphia Mint.</li> <li>In 2015, the U.S. Mint produced 9,365,300,000 cents</li> <li>Composition</li> <li>&nbsp; 1909–1942, 1944–1982: 95% copper, remainder tin or zinc<br /> </li> <li>&nbsp; 1943: zinc-plated steel (magnetic!)<br /> </li> <li>&nbsp; 1982–present: copper-plated zinc (97.5% Zn, 2.5% Cu)</li> <li>Before the Lincoln cent, no regularly circulating U.S. coin had featured an actual person (as opposed to idealized personifications, as of &quot;liberty&quot;)</li> <li>While a 1909 penny could send a postcard or buy a few eggs, it can&#039;t even buy itself: in 2014, the U.S. Mint spent 1.7 cents on every penny it produced.</li> <li>the U.S. Mint took more than two years to produce its first million coins, but today the Philadelphia Mint can make approximately that many in 45 minutes.</li> <li>Some people think that, when flipping a Cent and calling “heads” or “tails”, you should always call “tails” because the “heads” side weighs more and will fall down more often. The U.S. Mint disputes this theory.</li> <li>The name “penny” actually comes from England</li> <li>The first modern English coin was the silver penny of Offa, 8th century king of Mercia</li> <li>&nbsp; Originally, the penny was made from silver, but in later times was minted in copper.</li> <li>&nbsp; By the 18th century — when the first U.S. coins went into circulation — Brits still used the word penny as the singular for pence, just as they do today.</li> <li>&nbsp; The coin&#039;s name derives from the Old English pennige, pronounced, roughly, penny-yuh.</li> </ul><p> <ul> <li>There are more than 130 billion one-cent coins currently in circulation.</li> <li>Since its beginning, the U.S. Mint has produced more than 288.7 billion pennies. Lined up edge to edge, these pennies would circle the earth 137 times.</li> <li>More than two-thirds of all coins produced by the U.S. Mint are pennies.&nbsp;&nbsp; </li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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