Poll Question: With the discontinuation of the one-cent piece, have you noticed any impact in your spending?

I haven't noticed any difference or impact on spending. We have billions and billions of pennies, not to mention the Canadian penny that still gets confused for our cent in daily commerce.

Name and address withheld.

Excuse me, but laugh out loud. If I pay with cash and am due cent coins in change, I do not accept them, telling the cashier, "Keep them. Someone may need a penny."

Using Red Book mintage figures, there have been close to half a trillion (assuming I'm keeping all those zeros straight) one-cent coins minted since the adoption of the zinc-core planchet in 1982. Recirculating those coins will suffice for a long time.  

Gary Burhop, Memphis

So far, I have not made any changes in my day-to-day spending. I don't expect too big of an impact from this change.

KE, Germantown

Well, not much yet… In the past few years, there has been less coins made in nickel and dimes, but I still see them. I keep them, only to see if I can get a roll of them. I still see coins from 1959 to 2025. But in 2026, will less people start saving them, thinking they have value someday? Maybe in key dates or when copper and zinc get $100 a pound.

Name and address withheld.

I have not noticed any difference at all. I think that is because there is already so many cents in circulation. I think that I can safely predict that we will have many cents in circulation for years to come.

Dave Burdis, Charleroi, PA

Nope. There are still hundreds of billions of them in circulation, and they are still readily available. Besides that, the Treasury Department has confirmed that the U.S. one-cent coin will be discontinued in 2026, but it hasn't happened yet.

Tim Stroud, Facebook