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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doug21, post: 1321167, member: 5650&quot;]I have to disagree with you ( Other) Doug.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lowly cent will be eliminated within a very few years, and even if it somehow survives as a zinc piece of crap plated with copper, melting laws will be ignored.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could get alcohol during prohibition ( if alive then) or Pot now legally in many states, or other stuff. Early American Gold was exported easily to Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one can steal copper/ bronze from places like cemetaries and scrap it, then the same can be done for coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The penny is so irrelevant, the half cent went out in 1857, a half cent had to be worth the equivelant of at least a 2011 dime back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>My argument is pulling copper cents out of circulation ( that I can sell, legally for 3 cents a coin for melting purposes)....will generate me about $1 per hour.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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