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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;topcover, post: 341549, member: 12479&quot;]US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks out on the possible future of the Lincoln Cent. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Asked Friday whether he thought the penny should be eliminated, Paulson agreed that it would make sense, saying, &#039;<i>The</i> <i>penny is worth less than any other currency</i>.&#039; However, he quickly added that he didn&#039;t think it was &quot;politically doable&quot; to eliminate the one-cent coin and it wasn&#039;t something he planned to tackle in the final year of the Bush administration.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;The Mint produces between 7 billion and 8 billion pennies annually and officials said if they were allowed to alter the metal content in just the penny and the nickel it could save taxpayers up to $100 million.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s the rest of the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/29/national/w084603S20.DTL" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/29/national/w084603S20.DTL" rel="nofollow">article</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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