The nickel’s cost inefficiency may also spark further discussions on whether the five-cent coin should be next on the chopping block. If both coins were removed from circulation, the US would ...

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citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a ...