# Why don't they make steel pennies any more?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-make-steel-pennies-any-more/354227>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-make-steel-pennies-any-more/354227 "2006-04-26T00:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-make-steel-pennies-any-more/354227/21 "2006-04-26T21:14:41Z")

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> [@Cervaise](#):
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> Because we no longer have ones?

Because it’ll be harder to find the zinc to fuel a [zinc sulfur rocket](http://www.rattworks.com/Gallery/index.html).

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-make-steel-pennies-any-more/354227/22 "2006-04-26T21:42:23Z")

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> The stripper problem is easily solved. All you have to do is have them take money from your credit card or ATM card and they give you scrip worth a dollar each which can easily be stuffed into a g-string.

I’ve heard that a number of establishmets already do this, but they rip off the dancers in the process. A customer who charges $10 to his card gets ten scrips, but when the dancer cashes those ten scrips in at the end of the night, the management only pays them $8 or $9 for them. At least, so I’ve heard.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-make-steel-pennies-any-more/354227/23 "2006-04-26T21:53:54Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I’ve heard that a number of establishmets already do this, but they rip off the dancers in the process. A customer who charges $10 to his card gets ten scrips, but when the dancer cashes those ten scrips in at the end of the night, the management only pays them $8 or $9 for them. At least, so I’ve heard.

Hmmm. I must have missed some of Bozeman’s “upscale” entertainment, **Chronos**. 😉

As for the “whole grocery store keeping the 2 cents” issue, I have a “take a penny, leave a penny” tray by my cash register (as do many (most?) other stores around here), and I almost never have to restock it. Sometimes customers toss dimes or quarters in it, and I replace them with an equivalent number of pennies.

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