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Speaker 1: So it's the end of the penny.

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Speaker 2: No more penny for your thoughts, I'd see.

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Speaker 3: What she did there. Yeah, so, I mean there will

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Speaker 3: still be a penny.

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Speaker 1: It's still in circulation, but there's no they're not making

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Speaker 1: any more penny.

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Speaker 2: Correct first introduced in seventeen ninety three, it's been part

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Speaker 2: of the US currency for over two hundred and thirty years,

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Speaker 2: and they decided it was too expensive to make the

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Speaker 2: one cent.

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Speaker 3: Right because what it was like four or five cents

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Speaker 3: to make every penny, Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump said it was economically unsustainable. He ordered the

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Speaker 2: discontinuation of it, and it will save the US treasury

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Speaker 2: around fifty six million dollars annually.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably makes a lot of sense, right, especially

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Speaker 3: in a more in an environment in which more and

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Speaker 3: more people, fewer and fewer people, i should say, are

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Speaker 3: using actual physical cash.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't.

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Speaker 3: Keep track of their pennies anyway. It ends up in

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Speaker 3: a cup or you know, a bottom of couch, er,

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Speaker 3: big milk jug or whatever. Probably from the US government

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Speaker 3: and taxpayer perspective, that's a good move to say fifty

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Speaker 3: six million dollars for something fewer and fewer people are

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Speaker 3: are taking advantage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but some people still feeling nostalgic about it, right?

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Speaker 2: Are they symbolizes good luck?

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Speaker 1: Are people waking up today like, oh no, no more penny?

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Speaker 2: I remember my grandpa used to take all of the

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Speaker 2: change out of his pocket and if I could add

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Speaker 2: it up correctly, he would give it to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And there.

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Speaker 2: Were always pennies in there, sometimes nichols. Sometimes times if

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Speaker 2: it was a good day, there was a quarter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, and I hardly agree there was an era, not

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Speaker 3: all that long ago where people did collect keep use change.

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Speaker 3: I just think there's so few cash transactions anymore, mini

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Speaker 3: stores going to cash less options only, and that you

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Speaker 3: just don't even have I mean, do you walk around.

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Speaker 3: I mean you have a purse, but do you walk

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Speaker 3: around do you have change in your purse right now?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'll look and tell you. I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: any money in there. I did just get back from vacation.

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Speaker 3: I mean I have one penny and one nickel. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you have one penny and one nickel. So I have

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Speaker 3: a in my car. The cup with the change in

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Speaker 3: is probably worth more than the car itself. But I

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Speaker 3: have a you know, a little cup and I every

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Speaker 3: so often get the quarters out and I keep a

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Speaker 3: little quarter jar. But I just think it's just a

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Speaker 3: thing where sadly, because you're right, how many people of

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Speaker 3: the X or gen you know, a millennial era or

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Speaker 3: whatever do or have those memories of grandparents or aunts

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Speaker 3: or uncles pulling out a shiny coin of some sort

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Speaker 3: and giving it to you. I just think that's mostly

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Speaker 3: done and it makes sense to move on.

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Speaker 2: This is a very shiny penny that I did pull

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Speaker 2: out of my purse. It was minted in twenty twenty five, so.

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Speaker 1: All new you should keep that as a closed.

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Speaker 2: I wonder is that going to make pennies worth more money?

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Speaker 2: You know, there's always the wheat penny or the special

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Speaker 2: pennies with the you know, I don't know, minted at

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Speaker 2: the d wherever.

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Speaker 1: That's right?

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Speaker 2: Does that make them worth more?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Have you ever spent a day sifting through your coins

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Speaker 3: trying to figure out if any of them are worth anything?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's an app that you can scan your change. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I have done that until when you take a

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Speaker 2: picture of it or you Yeah, but you only get

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Speaker 2: to scan so many until you have to start paying

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Speaker 2: for the service.

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Speaker 3: On the air, and it probably costs more for the

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Speaker 3: service than your coins are actually worse than what they're worth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, But it does, you know, raise questions about what

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Speaker 2: are retailers gonna do. Are they gonna just round up

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Speaker 2: to the knickel? I mean, there's got to be so

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Speaker 2: many pennies in circulations. They've been out there since seventeen

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Speaker 2: ninety three. Sure, it's not like we're gonna run out

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Speaker 2: of pennies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it'll be a slow drip towards the end.

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Speaker 3: I mean by you know, in ten years, maybe you're

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Speaker 3: gonna have to make some sort of call on something.

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Speaker 1: But I think you'll be all right for a while.

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Speaker 2: Are we gonna lose the take a and need a penny?

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Speaker 2: Take a penny?

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Speaker 3: I think that's done. I mean those still exist at

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Speaker 3: the gas stations. I don't go into gas stations anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've still seen them. They still exist there. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's good. People are trying to help their help their

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Speaker 1: fellow man.