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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3741182, member: 66&quot;]Because as long as banks request cents from the Federal Reserve, and the Fed requests them from the Mint, the Mint has to keep making them.&nbsp; The Mint HAS to make coins to fulfill Fed requests, the Fed does NOT have to order coins to fill bank orders.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two ways that the cent could be discontinued for circulation.&nbsp; The Congress could vote to end the authorization for the cent, or the Fed could simply stop ordering them.&nbsp; If Congress says stop that it they are done.&nbsp; If the Fed stopped ordering, but then say five years later ordered them again, the mint would strat making them again.&nbsp; There is precedence for the Fed ending orders and the coin production ending.&nbsp; In 2001 the stopped ordering half dollars.&nbsp; In 2009 they stopped ordering nickels and dimes and the Mint stopped making them.&nbsp; When the Fed ordered them again in 2010 the mint started making them again.&nbsp; If the Fed stops ordering cents we would get rid of the cent without having to have the Congress end them.&nbsp; And since they are still authorized, the mint could still make them for collector sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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