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The Treasury Department announced that they will soon discontinue manufacturing new pennies. They will do so as soon as the existing supply of penny blanks is exhausted. In 2024, 3.2 billion pennies were minted. Pennies will still be legal tender as long as they remain in circulation.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/business ... inue-penny

Dagnabbit!!! How are kids supposed to buy candy down at the corner store without pennies? How do I keep my Benny Goodman album from skipping on the Victrola? Dadburn gummint always messing things up! I'm going to write a sternly worded letter to my Congressman, let me tell you!!!

Just as soon as I add to my stash of pennies under my mattress....