Predict the final year of the Lincoln Cent business strike?

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• Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 3:36AM

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

  
  
  Hoard the keys.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 4:03AM

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

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 4:04AM

  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.
  

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• cladking Posts: 28,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 4:06AM

  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.

  tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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• bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 4:10AM

  
  
  What if the dollar dies before the penny?

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• JohnnyCache Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 4:59AM

  2109, go out with a bang.
  
  Who here is going to report back if I'm right.

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• Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 2:22PM

  
  
  << <i>2109, go out with a bang.
  
  Who here is going to report back if I'm right. >>
  
  Riko's great grand child.

  
  
  Hoard the keys.

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• rmpsrpms Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 2:40PM

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

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• JedPlanchet Posts: 908 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 3:46PM

  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!

  Whatever you are, be a good one. ---- Abraham Lincoln

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• dcarr Posts: 9,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 3:47PM

  2009.
  
  Oops, that is what I said in 2005.
  So don't ask me.
  

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• MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 3:56PM

  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.

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• jdimmick Posts: 9,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 6:15PM

  wont happen until we go to a complete cashless society
  

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,649 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 6:23PM

  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.

  All glory is fleeting.

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• Overdate Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 6:56PM

  
  
  << <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 . . .

  My Adolph A. Weinman signature

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• bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 10:19PM

  
  
  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.
  

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• mercurydimeguy Posts: 4,625 ✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2015 10:27PM

  2019

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