The Treasury Department said the last pennies were stamped with a special omega mark and will not go into circulation.
  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    112·
    4 months ago

    There are enough in circulation that nobody will miss the lack of printing for decades

    • JandroDelSol@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 months ago

      I work at a bank, and people are trying to buy all of our pennies as collectors and leave none for the people who are actually going to use them. it’s a clusterfuck lmao

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      The penny died pretty quick in Canada, I would argue and say it’ll be gone within 3 years, tenders will just round up/down the total and no longer hand them out.

      • Taldan@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        That seems off

        Where are you getting this millions of years number? Seems really unrealistic considering millions of humans live at altitude and have barely enough oxygen in the air as it is