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DFW

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3. If the price of copper keeps going up.....

Reply to Electric Monk (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:19 PM

Mar 2012

People will soon be hoarding their pre-zinc cents in the USA the way they hoarded gold after 1933 and silver after 1964.

The USA eliminated the half cent after 1857, a little long ago for a modern comparison. We eliminated the two cent piece, the half dime and the silver three cent piece after 1873, but how many people today know that the USA made half dimes, two cent pieces and three cent pieces anyhow?

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(Canadian) Federal budget kills the penny, cuts CBC spending [View all] Electric Monk Mar 2012 OP

When we eliminated the Half Penny One_Life_To_Give Mar 2012 #1

One of the comments was that everything would be rounded up BB_Troll Mar 2012 #2

If the price of copper keeps going up..... DFW Mar 2012 #3

Isn't the "half dime" the nickel? n/t SylviaD Mar 2012 #6

Ummm, no. DFW Mar 2012 #9

Quote from West Wing tv show ZenLefty Mar 2012 #4

I blame Pierre Gauthier... Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #5

Ithink its time to do the same here magic59 Mar 2012 #7

Does Wisconsin's austerity man Paul Ryan have a Canadian twin brother? alp227 Mar 2012 #8