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Open in hackernews

US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j07858lno
36•DarkContinent•8mo ago

Comments

globular-toast•8mo ago
Australia stopped one and two cents coins decades ago. It's sad to have to live with a system where the numbers are just two or even five times larger than they should be, but I suppose worse things have happened.
perilunar•8mo ago
I don’t think it’s sad. Just the reality of constant inflation. And the $1 and $2 notes were replaced with coins, which are much better.

I’m hoping the 5c coins will go soon, and we’ll get an $5 coin.

theothertimcook•8mo ago
There was $5 coins at one point

https://www.australian-coins.com/investing-in-coins/australi...

perilunar•8mo ago
Nice. I like the triangular one, but not sure how practical it would be in general circulation.
eesmith•8mo ago
It's about time.

Andy Rooney complained about pennies back in the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-zcWgXu4hg . "A penny saved is a waste of time."

In inflation-adjusted terms, a penny back then was worth almost 3 cents now.

rightbyte•8mo ago
I am such a cheapskate that I can't not bother with pennies. I will save so much time from this.
kirykl•8mo ago
Replace it with a 33 cent coin
euroderf•8mo ago
Replace pennies, nickels, and dimes with a 12 1/2 cent coin. Eight to the dollar.
rahimnathwani•8mo ago
When I was a kid, a first-class stamp in the UK was 12.5 pence.
grues-dinner•8mo ago
I remembered there was some kind of "more efficient" coin system. I searched for "ternary coins" and "radix coins". Both are some crypto scams. Fun times.

Apparently I misremembered how it worked and it's actually 1, 5, 18 and 25 (or 29) for a 4 coin system: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf

perilunar•8mo ago
> The phasing out of the coins will mean businesses will need to round prices up or down…

Only when paying cash, and only the total.

joshstrange•8mo ago
In high school, 17 years ago, I wrote a DBQ (document based question essay) for an AP test about why pennies were a huge waste to the economy. Both in cost to some, keep in circulation, and just dealing with for businesses/consumers.

It’s past time we did away with the penny and honestly the nickel shouldn’t be too far behind. Really anything less than a quarter seems like more trouble than it’s worth at this point. I would never carry change though, I barely carry cash as-is.

beAbU•8mo ago
With Trump trying his very best to devalue the dollar, you think it's wise to do this now?
joshstrange•8mo ago
I don’t fully understand the question. How does removing the penny factor in? I honestly don’t get or I am missing the connection.
mystified5016•8mo ago
You very much don't understand how this works.
RiverCrochet•8mo ago
That would mean there would be even less need for pennies or even any coinage, right?
gus_massa•8mo ago
Here in Argentina we unofficially deprecate the coins/bills when they are worth approximately US$0.03 [1]. Now US$1=AR$1100 and you can find in the wild AR$100 and some AR$50, but AR$20 are very rare, AR$10 almost imposible to find, and lower denomination are just museum pieces.

Theoretically you can go to the supermarket with a big bag with a thousand of AR$1 coins, and they must accept them but it would be very weird.

[1] It's a personal opinion, there are no official threshold, don't ask how I made an statistic.

mystified5016•8mo ago
Honestly inflation is such that any denomination less than a full dollar is almost worthless.

The only application of fractional currency in modern USA is in making every price end in 99 cents for stupid reasons. Everyone has been conditioned to mentally round up any price to the next dollar.

There's nearly nothing you can buy today for less than a dollar. There's no point in any smaller denominations.

bbstats•8mo ago
Depends on your local cost of living
jolmg•8mo ago
> There's nearly nothing you can buy today for less than a dollar.

Aren't most things in the fruits and veggies section under a dollar? What's a carrot or a lemon cost?

Looking at the weekly ad at Food4Less, tomatoes are 2lb/$3. I think that's like 50 cents each tomato. Onions are 89 cents/lb.

kadoban•8mo ago
Doesn't it only practically matter if you're only buying ~one of those things? Who goes to a grocery store and buys one tomato? Feel like that could just round up or round random and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
chuckadams•8mo ago
Cool, now work on the dollar next. Think we can get a dollar coin that lasts more than a year or two? Found a Sacagawea dollar in one of my cupholders just the other day, took me a hot minute to recognize what it even was.
bluenose69•8mo ago
As mentioned in the article, we dropped the 1-cent coin in Canada over a decade ago. Nobody cares. We also dropped the $1 and $2 bills, years back. I'm guessing there will be a $5 coin soon ... but none of this matters much anymore, since people pay for so many things with contactless money transfers.
euroderf•8mo ago
If the penny bin (bucket?) of cash registers disappears, slide the rest over one slot and start minting 1$ coins like crazy.
metalman•8mo ago
a few things from experience with no pennys in Canada, 2¢ now rounds down to 0¢, along with your personal opinions, and if you want to make an impression on a date.....that is already going well, then keeping a vintage penny just in case you hit an awkward pause, may bring a smile.