Sunday, December 23, 2012

Coined For Money: Round-Up Dec. 17-23, 2012

The power of coins to influence is strong. Still that does not mean printing money will stop anytime soon.

For 2 weeks girls and boys competed to raise money at a school. Coins were collected and counted but any bill would take away from the final total. Clever coin drive with interesting results as the girls raised less but won.

It might cost Canada about $40 million to redeem those cents over the next 6 years. You can multiply that number by at least 100 if you try to do the same for the U.S. cents.

Coin vs Dollar debate round 211: Making coin dollars will bring jobs to America not to mention the delivery and distribution jobs. It also makes it less efficient assuming the price of gas will continue to rise.

New alloys are being tested at the U.S. Mint for future coins.

The world did not end and to celebrate we enjoyed a silver Mexican coin.

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