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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1387341, member: 27832&quot;]Of course you did. Otherwise, you wouldn&#039;t be posting here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s dumb to make coins with a composition that&#039;s <i>optimized</i> for toxicity -- not only containing a moderately toxic element, but binding it in such a way as to <i>accelerate</i> its corrosion, incidentally making the coin unusable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if nobody ever swallowed them, even if zinc were delicious and nutritious, the inside-out self-destructing cent is a stupid, stupid, stupid idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re <i>wanting</i> to thin the herd, make your coins out of plutonium. It&#039;ll help the economy by improving the velocity of money -- nobody wants to keep it in a pocket for long. And if you accumulate too much of it, it &quot;redistributes&quot; <i>itself</i>, with no government social engineering required![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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