Tag: Penny
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The U.S. will survive the demise of the penny | Mike Rosen
It’s worrisome enough that we have to live with the ever-present threat of nuclear war hanging over our head, the fiery extermination of humanity from global warming, a worldwide depression triggered by the U.S. defaulting on its $39 trillion national debt on its way to $50 trillion, to say nothing of an uptick in falls…
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Money Museum director in Colorado Springs helps make sense of the penny’s demise
Abraham Lincoln was three years away from being elected president when the half-cent coin was discontinued as an official form of American currency. Now, his visage on the 1-cent coin is on track to join the lineage of obsolete coins throughout U.S. history. At one end of the basement floor of the Money Museum near…