The Pennies Ending Is Now Here

think of all the people that have those 55 gallon drums full of pennies.

Will the US MInt still have the Cent in their annual coin sets.

 

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I know but I didn’t want to rub it in. I’d turn in a most of my Memorial Cents but I sell them for $1.00 a roll in my antique shop.

 

Maybe; they've not explicitly stated that one way or the other.

They'll definitely be in 2026 uncirculated and proof sets; past that, who knows yet. Whether they'll issue any for circulation next year is debateable. All that's for sure is they made their last order of penny planchets and last they said on the matter, they'll keep minting pennies until those are exhausted.

 

1.3 billion made between both mints this year; over 3.2 billion last year. I can still get rolls at the bank and the grocery store.

 

Soon it will be uncommon cents.

 

The world gets a tiny bit saner every time one of those signs go up even if it's crazy we need a sign at all.

 

Common cents aren’t so common anymore

 

I went and put gas in my car the other day. Gave them cash and started pumping. Ended up at 21.01, so went in for my change. They have a machine that puts out the change and looking at it I saw I had 95 cents. As she was getting the dollar bills for me, I said, what, your machine doesn't give cents? She said no. So I then said. Interesting. So I ran up 21.01 and you are rounding that cent up to 5 cents? She then found 4 cents in another drawer for me, but that just seemed really odd, rounding up, making a nickel cost for a penny over.

 

I'd be surprised if more than 10% of the cash paying people would even notice that the gas station programmed their change machine to do the rounding in their favor. I assume the government won't be auditing the accuracy of the change machines like they audit the gas pumps.

Anecdotal nonsense to follow...I frequent convenience stores and I see rounding of all sorts. Sometimes I get exact change, or to the nearest nickel, dime, quarter and even bigger. Sometimes they look at the total (say $4.32) and they'll tell me the cost is, say, $4 sometimes, but usually $4.25. They are rounding either the price or the change quite often. Anything to get out of having to scoop out all of those pesky coins from the drawer.

 

Common sense has been gone for a long time.

Oh wait, I made a funny ... cents .. sense

 

As rounding becomes more common, merchants that try to get away with that kind of nonsense will be learning valuable lessons about goodwill and word of mouth.