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<p>[QUOTE="bullnuke, post: 715313, member: 20661"]All personnel fellings aside, you have to be a really special person to keep making something that is putting you further in the hole. I read somewhere that it costs approx1.5 cents and 5.8 cents respectively to make a cent and a nickel, now in my backwoods hillbilly inflicted brain that means I am losing therefore I stop doing it until I can figure out how to do it cheaper. Do we really need the cent? We no longer have the half cent, I guess we decided it was no longer a viable currency unit so we ditched it. Don't get me wrong I am an avid cent collector, but economics should come before sentimentality. Anyway if they stopped making the cent how long would it take before we had a shortage, would there be enough time to switch pricing to round to the nearest nickel (or dime if we got rid of both). I think it would be amusing seeing BU rolls of 2008 cents selling for $100 on feebay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bullnuke, post: 715313, member: 20661"]All personnel fellings aside, you have to be a really special person to keep making something that is putting you further in the hole. I read somewhere that it costs approx1.5 cents and 5.8 cents respectively to make a cent and a nickel, now in my backwoods hillbilly inflicted brain that means I am losing therefore I stop doing it until I can figure out how to do it cheaper. Do we really need the cent? We no longer have the half cent, I guess we decided it was no longer a viable currency unit so we ditched it. Don't get me wrong I am an avid cent collector, but economics should come before sentimentality. Anyway if they stopped making the cent how long would it take before we had a shortage, would there be enough time to switch pricing to round to the nearest nickel (or dime if we got rid of both). I think it would be amusing seeing BU rolls of 2008 cents selling for $100 on feebay.[/QUOTE]
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