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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2477143, member: 1892&quot;]So, in 2013 we lost $35 Million over face value on Cent production. In 2014, $40.7 Million. In 2015, $46.8 Million. Over that 3 years, it cost the Mint $122.5 Million in throwaway money to produce Cents (based on 1.5 Cents each; in 2014 that was 1.66 Cents in reality so the actual loss was over $50 Million).</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the same period, we lost <i>even more than that</i> on Nickel production; Nickels cost over 8 Cents each to produce. So, a <b>quarter of a billion dollars lost</b> to produce two issues for three years. Those are numbers large enough to pay attention to.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as you mention, justafarmer, some of those costs would affect the cost of other issues if we eliminate that coinage. Not all of it, as labor, utility use and the amortization of no longer necessary equipment would be reduced, and those costs would be easily-absorbed by the much more &quot;profitable&quot; other issues struck (a Quarter costs only a little more than a Nickel to strike, for instance, under 9 cents).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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