It's actually less dumb but more corrupt: it's the lobbying funded by the company that sells zinc coin blanks to the US Treasury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

It's actually less dumb but more corrupt: it's the lobbying funded by the company that sells zinc coin blanks to the US Treasury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Common_Cents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Common_Cents