The Fate of the Copper Coin
January 2026
They gathered outside the Department of the Treasury building in Washington, D.C. with picket signs and megaphones to make their voices loud and proud. They disrupted traffic and asked people to sign their petition and harassed people who said they were wasting their time doing this, but if they didn’t make a stand here and now, then all would be lost.
They had a list of demands which they put forth on their official website (made with Hover), on their newly minted social media accounts, in the online newspapers, and in person with the papers they handed out.
The penny should be immediately restored and put back into production.
The penny should switch sizes with the dime, and the new size for the penny should become 0.725 inches in diameter.
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, should be put on the penny (Lincoln doesn’t need to be on it twice).
But their demands fell on deaf ears, and the world slipped further into greed, for now companies rounded up their prices from 0.99 cents to a dollar; they were nickel and diming us one cent!