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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1098072, member: 68&quot;]It cost about a penny more than it&#039;s worth to make one.&nbsp; Then everytime it gets used at costs about half a cent of wasted time and effort plus about three cents because it&#039;s displacing a coin we&nbsp; need in circulation. Our currency system is obsolete but al of this can&#039;t be laid on the cost of the penny even if it is the poster child for buggy whips.&nbsp; Eventually these toxic slugs will have to have safe disposal so that&#039;s another 3c or so.&nbsp; This disposal could be far more expensive if they use large advertising campaigns to encourage redemption or screen some of the garbage or garbage stream.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So what are they worth?&nbsp; A bright shiny new penny is worth about -2c.&nbsp; By the time it&#039;s worn down to AU it&#039;s worth about -$1 and if one ever makes it to VF it will be -$20 or so.&nbsp; But we&#039;re America and we can afford this and are plenty strong enough to wear this albatross.&nbsp; As a nation this white elephant poses no difficulty at all.&nbsp; We don&#039;t need no stinkin&#039; dollar coin because we got four quarters.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh wait.&nbsp; No one even uses quarters any longer because coins are obsolete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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