They are still legal tender, the Mint just isn’t producing them anymore. If things stay that way, eventually they will just become rarer and rarer until no one really sees them anymore (we stopped caring about them decades ago). Why bother with some convoluted, expensive plan to do anything about them? It’s really a problem that will solve itself for the cost of someone a bank occasionally delivering a bag of them to the Mint as they do with any currency which is old and should be taken out of circulation.
Uh… ok? I wasn’t expecting them to do anything about the ones in circulation.
Collect them, make rolls, and then stuff them in your pants to impress
I’m trying to imagine how having what looks like a bunch of small dicks in my pants would impress. Or, more accurately, who.
Polyphallophiles, if that’s a word that exists
It does now.
Just wait till copper goes up in value a little bit. In the 00’s gangsters were melting pennies down by the ton for the small amount of copper in them. Wouldn’t call them “trash” exactly…
You mean copper coated zinc. Which can’t be recycled, and already has about 5 cents of metal in them
I assume by recycled you mean melted down into an alloy similar to what it was before? I.e., aluminum. During the Great Recession the gangs that were melting down pennies were very much doing so to separate the copper from the zinc. and the zinc wasn’t that worthless either.
It had a lot of folks worried. This was back when the US Federal Government actually did things and wasn’t controlled by horrible, stupid people. Even GWB saw some value in the concept, but I digress.
They’re not copper anymore
Yes. I know.
