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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 distric
by hakfoo 3y ago
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.
- jerrysievert 3y agogreat! 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.
- hakfoo 3y agoThey 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-nibly 3y agoSolving problems for whiners doesn't get them to stop whining.