I miss pennies

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I miss pennies

Post by Clarence »

Pennies no longer exist in Canadaland

They haven't for a few years .. but I miss em.

Oh man they were fun to collect.

They're still legal tender, but if you give it to a store/bank, they keep it and don't distribute them back to the public. They all go somewheres? I dunno

Anyone know?

Pennies are fun

Anyway, now everything is rounded up or down to the nickle. But pennies still exist when using a credit card, that's febreeze.

That comes to $9.28 ... og you're paying with credit card? $9.30!!! smurf that

What do you guys think?

Apparently pennies were getting too expensive to make, they used to be full coppper but in the end were copper coated zinc things or something. Even then a penny cost like 2.5 cents to make or something.

I'm talking out of my bottom for the most part here, but if anyone wants to chime in with actual facts please do :)

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Pennies suck.
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We still have pennies 8-) . Ours are made of copper-plated steel nowadays, though our Master of the Mint wants to save £10m a year by using nickel to coat them, rather than copper. He had hired the Canadian bank man (I've closed the news article and can't remember his title - it wasn't as good as Master of the Mint) to sort it out, but we still have pennies so I'm guessing he didn't succeed.

Just found this on the Royal Mint website:
The Royal Mint does not reveal exactly how much it costs to make specific coins as such information could be used to its competitors' advantage.
As the sole producers of the national currency, who exactly are their competitors?

Also, that rounding thing sound rubbish. Where do they stop? Suddenly everything's in round pounds or dollars or whatever. It also goes way against the psychology of the 99p.
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If it was 9.27 they would have rounded down to 9.25. There was talk of doing this here in America. Our pennies are mostly Zinc. You can scrape the corner of a penny to reveal the shiny silver inside, then drop it in Nitric acid -- which pretty much ignores the Copper but goes crazy on the Zinc -- and in a day or two you get a hollow copper penny.

Here in America I don't think we ever had Half Pennies... or if we did, we have not used them in so long that nobody remembers them. The penny is about to go the same way. It is pretty much worthless except to throw in a fountain.
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Now I want to do that hollow penny thing
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Zinc melts at a lower temperature than Copper, and I have heated pennies in the fireplace to the point where I dropped it on a concrete floor and it crumpled. One half still looked like a penny, the other half looked kind of like a melted ice cream.
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American pennies in 1941 or so were not copper, I forgot what they were as all copper was going to the war effort.
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They were steel in 1941 and 1942, and they are fairly rare and collectible.

Anyone here a Numismatist?
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GreatZot wrote:They were steel in 1941 and 1942, and they are fairly rare and collectible.

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Numismatist. Shares the same root as,"Miser," or a greedy collector of money, such as Scrooge McDuck. It means a person who collects coins.
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Personally i live in NY and pennies are a thing where i live.
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Pennies, or cents as we call it, have been discarded since 1980, but were legal to pay with until 1983. When the Euro was introduced in 2001 the cent came back in one- and two cent coins. Most stores in the NL round up the end price to 5 cents, but if you pay with a card you pay the exact price. I think that's ridiculous. I love those little coins too.
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I blame chex for misreading the title of this thread. Twice.
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Now that, I miss.
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Clarence, all of your canadaland pennies ended up in the US..

If you really want pennies, I can mail you the $10.80 in US pennies I've accrued and refuse to use... On the condition that you keep them in Canadaland
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lol, nah that's aright.

When I was younger I collected pennies though and have one from every year (except for some of the 20s cause they're rate due to the depression)
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I have pennies how much can i sell them for? :lol:
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Canadian pennies? I had an American pennie about six years ago, but I lost t.
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Hey, if any of you Europeans want some American coinage, PM me your address and I'll send some taped to a postcard.
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When my penny jar is full, and it's almost there, I'm not even going to take it to the bank, I'm gonna take that $17 in pennies and dump them in the middle of the woods because smurf pennies
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