From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Turd Ferguson  wrote:   
      
   >COIN LOSS: The United States ended production of the penny on Wednesday.   
   >For more than 230 years, the penny has circulated through American piggy   
   >banks and cash registers. But rising production costs - each penny now   
   >costs nearly 4 cents to make - and shifts in consumer behavior have made   
   >it impractical to keep producing them.   
      
   A coin circulates numerous times. The fact that it costs more to produce   
   than its face value is meaningless.   
      
   The real question is why we don't have coins to replace $1 and $5   
   currency.   
      
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