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New Penny To Make Debut

Posted by DFO

Feb. 12, 2009 1:45 p.m. • 13 comments

This image provided by the US Mint shows the newly redesigned one-cent coin (penny). The obverse (heads side) will continue to bear the likeness of President Lincoln currently on the penny. The reverse (tails side) will reflect four different designs, each one representing a different aspect, or theme, of President Lincoln’s life. The themes for the reverse designs represent the four major aspects of Abraham Lincoln’s life, from left, include his birth and early childhood in Kentucky; his formative years in Indiana; his professional life in Illinois; and his presidency in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/US Mint)

Question: Is the penny necessary? Wouldn’t it be easier for everyone if the U.S. eliminated the penny, which is virtually worthless, from our monetary system?

13 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

toadman on February 12 at 2:06 p.m.
Hey man, it pays the tax on a .99cent burrito at Taco Smell.
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 2:09 p.m.
That’s exactly correct, toadman. How would anyone care to figure out a 6% tax in the state of Idaho without the penny?
JeanieSpokane on February 12 at 2:13 p.m.
A penny saved is a penny earned; kinda. I save them in an acquarium.
toadman on February 12 at 2:26 p.m.
“A penny saved is a penny earned;” - Jeanie

My kids are always picking up pennies off the ground…I always tell them “see a penny, pick it up, and all the day long, you’ll have a penny in your pocket.”

People tell me I’m saying it wrong…

;-)
Lizard_People on February 12 at 2:32 p.m.
Best would be to put value back in the dollar.

2nd best would be to discontinue the penny and nickel, and switch to a dollar coin exclusively.
marmitetoasty on February 13 at 12:36 a.m.
You call your one cent a penny?… well, you can stop that right now lol

We have a demi-john that we use as a doorstop on the middle room/kitchen door, we put all our pennies and tuppennies into it and every couple of years we all guess how much is in there and whoever is nearest gets the dosh lol……. its about 3 quarters full now (demi-john = one of those huge wine fermenting glass jar thingies)….. there is probably about 50 quid or more in there now…… I LOVE out little pennies and yes Im old enough to remember before decimals and when we had right proper big pennies…..

x
marmitetoasty on February 13 at 12:37 a.m.
Toadie, you saying it wrong LMFAO

Its ‘see a pin and pick it up’ gawds sake…

x

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.