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0 pointshakfoo2y ago0 comments

It's because there's one company that produces the weird bronze-plated-zinc blanks used for cents, and it resides in a politically powerful legislator's district.

Since it also features Lincoln, the Illinois contingent will also cling to it for dear life.

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jerrysievert2y ago

great! we haven't had a dollar coin released in a while, let's deprecate the penny and put Lincoln on a dollar coin! he can be featured as part of a rotation of existing dollar coins over the next several years as we get them back into circulation.

hakfooOP2y ago

They already put him on a $1 coin in 2010. They went through every president starting in the mid-2000s, but by the time they had gotten to him, we had plenty of $1 coins in the vaults, so the mintage was small and not-for-circulation-- about 97 million coins total. (By comparison, the 2000 Sacajawea type was over 1.2 billion)

from-nibly2y ago

Solving problems for whiners doesn't get them to stop whining.

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