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will cost exactly 1 cent to make, and by 1990 every penny will cost the mint 1.25 cents.
All other U. S. coins show what might be thought of as a profit. For instance, it costs only 6.7 cents to make a “silver” dollar, and 1.6 cents to make a nickel.
And, as though revealing that wooden nickels are really plastic, it must be reported that silver dollars made today don’t have any silver in them.
Halves, quarters, and dimes don’t either; they are all about 75 per cent copper and 25 per cent nickel. So is the 5-cent nickel itself.
Part of the penny’s problem is its popularity. Millions of people save pennies, socking them away in piggy banks, old jars, and dresser drawers. Such rainyday reserves account for 31
94.9%