Yup – you can pick them up at all banks!

As a collector I love pennies and never like seeing any denominations go away, but if they really do cost us more to produce than they’re worth, then yeah – I won’t put up too much a fight if and when they do go away (and honestly I think it’s just a matter of time, as much as I like them).

Probably not, if you hail all the way from Switzerland! ;)

I’d tell you to do a similar post on your country’s currency for us to guess, but you can already assume we’d all fail haha… (though I’d still very much enjoy reading it!)

Haha…. I always envision people trying to shave little bits off of them to make change in an apocalyptic world :) There’s a ton of people who hoard this stuff waiting for exactly that, so hopefully they’re picking up a variety of different sizes and amounts so they can continue on their trade okay ;)

Thanks for this! Makes sense too as I’m sure it’s cheaper to produce the bars vs fancy looking coins :)

Very good question! And here are two articles I just found on it that goes into it a bit more – one of which using Australia as a great example of countries doing it right :)

https://howwegettonext.com/there-s-a-global-war-against-dirty-money-and-america-hasn-t-joined-52fd1611511d

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-U-S-not-convert-to-polymer-currency

That is a fun one, thank you! :)

As a collector I’m very glad to hear that :) The beauty/values of coins are nice, but it’s the *history* behind them that really makes our hobby fun! So I’m glad y’all are holding onto those!!