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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2485420, member: 66&quot;]The Mint makes them because the Fed requests them.&nbsp; The Fed requests them because the banks ask for them.&nbsp; The banks ask for the because the businesses ask for them.&nbsp; The businesses ask for them because the people don&#039;t use but instead toss them into change jars at a faster rate than the jars go back tot he banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>As long as they are an authorized coin and requests keep coming in the mint pretty much has to keep making them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe they have the authority to unilaterally decide they aren&#039;t going to make them any more.</p><p><br /></p><p>And contrary to what some people believe if they stop making them having a trillion of them out there is NOT going to keep them circulating.&nbsp; I still firmly believe that if they stopped making cents tomorrow, within a year, two at the most,&nbsp; they will NOT be a circulating coin and everyone will be rounding.&nbsp; Any that do show up then will go back to the banks, then to the Fed, and not come back.&nbsp; Why because by then the businesses are used to or committed to rounding.&nbsp; They no longer need the cents, they no longer ask for them at the bank.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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