Elimination of the Penny
The U.S. government announced that it will no longer produce pennies. The last pennies were minted in November, 2025.
Above, Remi Chester using pennies in an unconventional way.
It is expected that businesses will round prices to the nearest nickel.
Above, a sculpture made out of thousands of pennies.
Eventually, the only people possessing pennies will be coin collectors, like the guy above.
What next? Will we reach the point where the dollar bill will also become obsolete? Not any time soon, but my theory is that at some point in the future, neither coins nor paper money will be used, because all monetary transactions will be electronic.
We might not even use credit cards – perhaps people will poke their finger into a receptacle that reads their fingerprint and pays the bill. OK, probably not that receptacle.
People will look back at us as primitive for using coins and cash.
But for now, some of us will remember the penny with nostalgia.
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