Predict the final year of the Lincoln Cent business strike?

MGLICKER

....minted for circulation.


2022 is my guess.

Type2

I hope I see it, I been hoarding box's for years now and I'll go with 2018 or 2020.

ricko

2057......send the prize to my great grand child (yet to be conceived).... Cheers, RickO

LindeDad

I feel it will be sooner and politically driven. Part of the natural and reoccurring swing on the hill.
Even though this form seems to frown on political discussion it does affect our coinage IMO.

cladking

I can picture the entire country from sea to shining sea carpeted with
pennies and chickens that have come home to roost. I can't quite picture
the last date on the coins.


Perhaps they're still being made.

bronco2078

What if the dollar dies before the penny?

JohnnyCache

2109, go out with a bang.

Who here is going to report back if I'm right.

Type2

<< <i>2109, go out with a bang.

Who here is going to report back if I'm right. >>

Riko's great grand child.

rmpsrpms

I think it will go one more 25 year design cycle life, so I predict 2034 or 2035.

JedPlanchet

Another 5 years for circulation. Mint sets, who knows? Maybe they'll make a cent + nickle + half set - PDS of course ... with the appropriate markup!

dcarr

2009.

Oops, that is what I said in 2005.
So don't ask me.

MGLICKER

From a commerce standpoint, we could eliminate the cent, nickel and dime with no real consequence. Just round the total down at retail for the cash customers. The savings in not handling the small denoms will offset the loss. Plus the retailer pays no transaction fee for cash as he does on Debit and credit transactions.

jdimmick

wont happen until we go to a complete cashless society

291fifth

Like a decision to eliminate the paper dollar, the decision will be based on political considerations. Lobbies for employee unions and metal suppliers will continue to be key.

I have no guess as to the year.

Overdate

<< <i>2109, go out with a bang.

Who here is going to report back if I'm right. >>


Well, I do take lots of vitamins . . .

bronco2078

Helllllooooo this is the US government . They lose money on everything they do.

If they stopped making cents then they would just waste what that ever the savings was on something else. F 35 fighters , turtle studies in Alaska, they just gave away an aircraft carrier , why should we trust any of the governments cost estimates?

If the mint skipped a year of penny making every other year would anyone besides coin collectors notice? Cheap enough to just stop the production now and then or throttle down if savings is the actual goal.

mercurydimeguy

2019