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Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? by paulie_a on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:20AM (#23830986)
American currency isn't paper. It's more akin to cloth than anything else. And you can go swimming with 300 in bills in the USA. They are not going to melt and will be just fine even if submerged for hours.

There are absolutely better materials to use, no argument there. But US paper currency are not even close to being fragile.

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Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? by stan_rogers on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:17AM (#23832910)
It's paper. It just happens to be a cotton/linen long-fibre pulp blend rather than, say, wood pulp. That's how most paper was made from the origins of the stuff, in the West at least; wood pulp and so forth are relatively new in the grand scheme of things.
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Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? by ShorsHammer on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:37AM (#23841367)
It's nowhere near as good as it could be and the costs for damage replacement are astronomical.
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