@futurebird I've personally been on the "stop making pennies and nickles" bandwagon for a decade or so now. It's a waste of metal and manufacturing imo. I know Canada got rid of their penny and now you only really find it in circulation here in the US where people use it accidentally or interchangeably with the US penny.
While we might not suddenly have $100 million or whatever if we stopped making them, it would free up some labor and manufacturing infrastructure/land to do something more useful for most people. And I think that's what people are kinda saying when they say it costs more to make these coins then the value we give them for spending. Maybe I'm projecting tho and most people think they'll get a rebate or something if we just stop minting them 
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