To survive, the penny may need its own luck. The great debate on the usefulness of the one-cent piece has raged for years now. The problem? It costs more than a penny to produce a penny. No wonder the coin has drawn ire from economists, members of congress, and even President Barack Obama.
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Were you aware that today’s coinage is JUNK METAL?
Making junk-metal coinage out of valuable metals…
Any paper money, including American paper money is intrinsically worthless, but so is our current coinage!
When you take valuable metals and forge them together into a useless conglomerate, that otherwise becomes worthless for any known industrial purposes.
If melted down, it would cost more to separate the metals back into their original components, than the original values of the individual metals.