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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 800827, member: 68&quot;]This is absurd.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you subtract the metal costs from these it looks like;</p><p><br /></p><p>cent: 1c </p><p>nickel: 1c </p><p>dime: 3c </p><p>quarter: 6c </p><p>dollar: 20c</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s simply ludicrous to believe they can fabricate a nickel for a penny but it costs twenty times as much to make a similarly sized dollar.&nbsp; Why would a little dime cost three times as much to make as a penny?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously they are shifting the huge waste of making pennies and nickels onto the other coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest waste of the penny is when it actually gets used.&nbsp; When you see a well worn cent (VF) all that wear represents a few dollars in waste.&nbsp; With 200,000,000,000 pennies lying around representing so much waste it&#039;s mind boggling.&nbsp; Then add to this waste the additional waste of not havcing a circulating dollar coin since this coin can&#039;t circulate with the penny because of the lack of space in change drawers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I once called our coinage system static and obsolete.&nbsp; It certainly hasn&#039;t been static since 1999 but it has gone well beyond obsolete to dysfuntional.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One might even say it has jumped the shark and gone beyond the pale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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