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Is the nickel finished as a circulating coin?
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With the price of making a nickel now above a nickel, how long do you think production will continue?
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TC71
<< <i>With the price of making a nickel now above a nickel, how long do you think production will continue? >>
Three words: nickel plated zinc
TD
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<< <i>With the price of making a nickel now above a nickel, how long do you think production will continue? >>
Three words: nickel plated zinc
TD >>
That's not funny. The cent contains just below the threshold of the amount of zinc
necessary to kill a baby. While death may result from this amount of metal in a small
child it would not normally be expected. A nickel would contain far more metal and
due to the larger size would be more likely to be hung up and more throughly digest-
ed.
There are plenty of cheap metal. Zinc would be an error of larger proportions than it
was with the cent.
My vote goes to making the dime the smallest denomination US coin. We could round the price of gasoline to the nearest dime, and absolutely do away with the stupid 0.9 cents per gallon added currently. So much simpler to say $4.50 regular, $4.60 mid, and $4.70 premium.
<< <i>We could go back to silver dimes and forget the penny and nickel. Problem is, nobody would like handling the new dimes, seeing as they would be like the old US trimes in size.
My vote goes to making the dime the smallest denomination US coin. We could round the price of gasoline to the nearest dime, and absolutely do away with the stupid 0.9 cents per gallon added currently. So much simpler to say $4.50 regular, $4.60 mid, and $4.70 premium. >>
You can't make change with only dimes and quarters. If you buy a ten cent item and have only a quarter the store can't make change.
<< <i>You can't make change with only dimes and quarters. If you buy a ten cent item and have only a quarter the store can't make change. >>
Time to bring back the double-dime...
<< <i>So much simpler to say $4.50 regular, $4.60 mid, and $4.70 premium. >>
<< <i>My vote goes to making the dime the smallest denomination US coin. We could round the price of gasoline to the nearest dime, and absolutely do away with the stupid 0.9 cents per gallon added currently. So much simpler to say $4.50 regular, $4.60 mid, and $4.70 premium. >>
The 0.9 cents to which you are referring is the nine-tenths of a cent usually displayed on a gasoline price, not nine cents.
Semper ubi sub ubi
In fact, the changes in the quarter and nickel are telegraphing to the public, "get used to coinage changing"
the rise in metal prices recently is but a continuing trend that has been going on a long long time...
sometimes, changes are necessary, in 1857 it was the elimination of the half cent and the reduction of the size of the cent,
in 1965 it was the elimination of silver...
look for the one-cent coin to end, (maybe bring back the two-cent coin?) and look for changes in the composition of a nickel
the larger coins will change too, eventually but the cent and the nickel in it's current form have one foot in the grave..
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<< <i>as long as the mint can sell $2. bu nickel rolls for $8. each, they will keep on making them. >>
I bet you they could sell $2 BU 2008 Half Dime rolls for $10 each
<< <i>Dump the nickel and bring back the half dime
It would be great to see a little clad half dime but they're more likely to just shrink the size of the nickel probably.
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