<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>United Statesians informally retain "penny" for "cent."<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>And you know there must be something fundamentally wrong with a government that can't make money even when they quite literally own the mint. As of 2006 it cost the government 1.75 cents to make each one cent coin and 7 cents to make each 5 cent nickel coin.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a good way to know when it's time to stop making a coin, if you place one on the sidewalk in a busy city and nobody bothers to pick it up then stop making it.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>