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Before the Civil War the US Mint stopped making half cent coins because they could no longer buy anything.
Think about inflation since the 1860s. Gold was $25 per ounce. The latest spot price for gold is $1200 per ounce. That's a factor of 48. A dollar in 2016 is now worth TWO CENTS in 1860. Taking inflation into account the US Mint should no longer even produce quarters.
it is time to reform the currency. Especially now that fewer and fewer people spend cash. For all I care start printing bills for 25 and 50 cents and drop coins all together. I'm not sure it makes sense to redesign the coinage because we'd have to have a $25 coin as the largest coin and a $50 bill as the smallest bill to meet the standards of the 1860s.
The time to get rid of the one cent coin was when gumball machines started taking nickels. That was in the 1970s.