New penny

[baldguy]

Whatcha think?



http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/lincolnredesign/?flash=yes

[annabanana]

1. The back's not fancy enough...

(I miss the flourishes)

[Orrex]

2. Makes cents to me

For a change.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I say get rid of it...

They're a nuisance.

It is pretty, though!

baldguy! :hi:

[BurtWorm]

4. Why are they putting underpants on the back of the penny?

:shrug:

[AsahinaKimi]

7. depends

on the situation I guess.. :shrug: They kinda look like diapers.

[BurtWorm]

9. I guess it makes more sense to put them on the tails side

than the heads side.

[Mojambo]

5. Dump the "In God We Trust" nonsense and it would be perfect. n/t

[donheld]

11. Just leave off the first T

in god we rust

[femmocrat]

6. I didn't know there was a new penny,

I wish they would stop fooling around with our currency. It's not like there was a shortage of the old ones.

[baldguy]

8. It generates intrest with numismatists.

And therefor additional revenue for the mint - and the govt.

[dysfunctional press]

14. they have to stay one step ahead of the counterfeiters.

:silly:

[Terra Alta]

10. I think we need to get rid of the penny

It costs more to make than it's actually worth. I never really liked pennies, anyway.

[donheld]

12. It's a penny, who cares.

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. Half Penny eliminated in 1857

And at that time it had the purchasing power of a Dime today. So why do we keep this relic? An argument could be made that eliminating anything smaller than a Quarter would be the same as eliminating the half cent in 57.

[surrealAmerican]

15. Indeed ...

... and to compound the matter, both pennies and nickels cost more to make than they are worth. We need a rational approach to our currency.

Eliminate pennies and nickels (and possibly dimes), and make any denomination less than $20 a coin.

[hunter]

17. Or make a dime worth a dollar, a quarter worth $2.50 and so on.

Do it suddenly, secretly, at the stroke of midnight.

Everyone would be rushing out to spend their jars and piggy banks full of coins, thousands of people would be hired to update vending machines, and just like that the depression would end!

After that any newly minted coins would have proper denominations, "2 1/2 dollars" for the quarter sized coins, "one dollar" for dimes, etc...

It would sort of be like lopping a zero off the dollar, but only for small scale transactions.

I'm sort of joking, but maybe not.

[Deep13]

16. +1

[arcadian]

18. Reminiscent of the 1930s

If we are going to be in a depression our coinage might as well look like it

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[MiddleFingerMom]

20. Someone said "The back's not fancy enough." Well... I fixed that for ya.

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