the rules for Penny Wars are simple. Students earn points by collecting pennies, but they can sabotage other grades by dropping nickels, dimes or quarters into their jars and subtracting points ...

The nickel now costs 14 cents to make, a victim of the same forces that raised the penny’s cost (despite ... Congress took the silver out of dimes and quarters. Four years later, the Federal ...

I began filling rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to tote to the bank and made enough to fill my car with gas. Mr. Penny and Mr. Nickel have had long careers. They should get their ...

The real issue, Maharrey argues, is not the penny ... dimes, and half-dollars, replacing them with base metals (junk silver). With inflation continuously eating away at the dollar’s value, Maharrey ...

Pennies were the most common coins produced by the Mint last year, followed, in order, by quarters, dimes, nickels and ... prices to the closest nickel if the penny was eliminated, worsening ...

And the nickel and dime, too!” McArdle commented that if she sees a penny on the street, “I don’t bother to lean down and pick it up.” “It’s not worth my time,” Goins agreed.

So if we were dropping to that subdivision of denominations today, we would have to get rid of the penny, the nickel and the dime! Molly: No, not the nickel and dime! Megan: Honestly, I think the ...

He couldn’t say if nickel usage would increase, but he did say that without the penny, cash transactions would be rounded to the nearest nickel.And the United States wouldn’t be the first to ...