Topic: Pennies

Canada Wins the Race to Eliminate the Terrible Penny

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Canada has bested America in at least one thing today: Ridding itself of what The New Yorker called "horrid and useless" bits of currency, the penny.

By Adam Martin

Feb 14, 2012

How Much is America's Spare Change Worth?

A tiny detail of President Barack Obama's budget proposal from Monday suggested a pretty major discrepancy in the way U.S. currency works: Pennies and Nickles are worth, on their faces, less than half the value of their materials.

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