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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phil Ham, post: 754796, member: 5787&quot;]You might be right about the cents but they are far outweighed by the other ones (check out coinflation.com).&nbsp; I&#039;m also a little curious about the production costs at the mint.&nbsp; If it is like other businesses, you have to allocate indirect costs across the entire volume of product line.&nbsp; If they stop minting the cents, many of those costs will move to the other coins making them more expensive to produce.&nbsp; Lets say that they make 9 billion cents a year.&nbsp; It costs them $0.0061/cent in RM costs.&nbsp; They now have $0.0039/cent in production and indirect costs.&nbsp; The production and indirect cost are now $35 million.&nbsp; They will only lose money on the cents if they stop making them and the actual cost savings is over $35 million.&nbsp; If it is like the business that I&#039;m in, much of the costs will not go away but transfer to the other products (nickels, dimes, quarters, etc.).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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