Costs 1.7 cents to make a penny???

[Forrest_Flock]

wha??
yea it has been a while since I was in Australia

perhaps they will become
collectable items after that

 

[magicpigeon]

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LOL yes I've been collecting them since 2007 where word first got around to me...

 

[redhen]

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Don't holdyour breath...they're thinking of getting rid of that too

So how the heck do you guys make "change" over there?

 

[magicpigeon]

My lesson:

something costs $1.99

buy 5 of the object:

total cost is $10.95 Hence: I save 5 cents xD
We round it to the nearest 5

 

[Forrest_Flock]

perhaps I should get my mates to send me some
went to Australia a couple of years ago
Melbourne and Sydney, I still keep in contact with some dudes down there

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

That extra 0.7 cents is made up with the fact that it doesn't cost $100 to make a $100 bill.

 

[thekid]

You know the Gov. has hundreds of thousands of the new president dollar coins. Maybe more. nobody is taking them. they have to build a second warehouse just to keep those in.


I told my dad if they didnt want them i would take them off of their hands.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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I see some of them circulating around here. People like to hold onto them though. I still have Susan B. Anthony dollars from years ago. I fill the pop machine at the local park and was surprised that the machines actually accept dollar coins. I find about $10 of dollar coins in there every every couple weeks. I've even had people buy eggs here and dropped them in our coffee can. My wife takes them and sticks them in a drawer like they are collector's items...

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but it now costs more than five cents to make a U.S. nickle.

U.S. pennies have been made out of zinc with a thin wash of copper since 1982. Nickles will change before very long too.

I suspect eventually they'll all be made of plastic.