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Originally Posted by Frosty
When Canada dropped the penny, they kept everything the same for electronic payment and just round up or down to the nearest nickle for any cash payments. Super simple.
Instead, we are wasting money making new designs for our pennies. 
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Designs for pennies really don't cost that much, but
it costs more than a penny to make a penny. It's completely ridiculous that we still have them. We'd probably have done away with them years ago if not for the zinc lobby keeping pennies in play.
http://fortune.com/2012/04/11/dont-m...e-penny-lobby/