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美联社报道说，美国造币厂已为Penny Blanks下达了最终订单，这标志着似乎是美国一美分硬币的道路的尽头。

The AP reports that the U.S. Mint has placed its final order for penny blanks, which appears to mark the end of the road for America’s one-cent coin.

美联社报道说，美国造币厂已为Penny Blanks下达了最终订单，这似乎标志着美国一美分硬币的道路结束。

The order will carry the Mint through the end of 2025. Producing a small number of one-cent coins for circulation in 2026 would be impractical, as speculators and collectors would likely begin to bid up the price of the coins.

该订单将延伸到2025年底。在2026年生产少量的单美分硬币进行循环是不切实际的，因为投机者和收藏家可能会开始竞标硬币的价格。

The cent was one of two copper coins the Mint issued upon its founding. The other, the half cent, was discontinued in 1857 because it was no longer practical. That same year, the size and composition of the cent was changed to lower production costs. While the copper-plated zinc used for today’s penny is not the same composition used to strike the 1857 Flying Eagle Cent, that coin, and the pattern version issued the year before were the first of the so-called “Small Cent” types, of which the 2025 Lincoln Shield Cents will be the last.

Cent是造币厂成立时发出的两枚铜币之一。另一个是一半，在1857年被停产，因为它不再实用。同年，Cent的规模和组成更改为降低生产成本。虽然用于当今一分钱的铜镀锌并非与击中1857年飞鹰的含量相同，但硬币和前一年发行的图案版本是所谓的“小分美分”类型中的第一种，其中2025林肯盾牌的美分将是最后一个。

More than $1 billion worth of cents remain in circulation, and to date, neither the Treasury Department nor Congress has mentioned demonetizing the coin. Members of the public should continue to see the coin in use after the Mint suspends production, but we do not expect that the coin will stick around for long, as the feedback loop will be broken, and retailers will find it increasingly difficult to stock it. Likewise, banks will likely decide to accept the denomination at some point no longer.

价值超过10亿美元的美分仍在流通中，迄今为止，财政部和国会都没有提到该硬币的货币。薄荷暂停生产后，公众应该继续看到使用的硬币，但我们不希望硬币会长时间持续，因为反馈回路会被打破，零售商会发现库存越来越困难。同样，银行可能会在某个时候决定接受该教派。

The Trump Administration thinks so. However, agitation to end penny production is nothing new. Several members of Congress have lobbied to kill the penny, citing its increased cost and diminished spending power.

特朗普政府这样认为。但是，结束一分钱生产并不是什么新鲜事。几名国会议员游说杀死一分钱，理由是其成本增加并减少了支出能力。

According to the U.S. Mint’s 2024 annual report, it costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which has risen by 20% from the previous year due to increasing prices of zinc and copper. With approximately 3.2 billion pennies minted in 2024 alone, the Mint incurred losses exceeding $85 million on penny production. However, this figure includes hard costs spread out across all coin denominations. As the cent accounts for 40% of the Mint’s total production, eliminating this coin will not eliminate all these costs. The Mint shifting these costs to other circulating coins will make their production more costly. Shifting costs to the five-cent nickel will make that denomination even more expensive to produce. The Mint loses more money making nickels than cents on a per-coin basis. With no one-cent coin, the merchants will require the Mint to strike more five-cent coins.

根据美国造币厂的2024年年度报告，生产一分钱的成本为3.69美分，由于锌和铜的价格上涨，这一一分钱比上一年增长了20％。仅2024年，造币厂就造成了约32亿便士的造成的损失，而损失超过了8500万美元的一分钱。但是，这个数字包括在所有硬币面额中散布的硬成本。由于百分钟占造币厂总产量的40％，因此消除了这枚硬币不会消除所有这些成本。将这些成本转移到其他循环硬币的造币厂将使他们的产量更加昂贵。转移到五美分镍的成本将使该面额更加昂贵。薄荷损失的钱比每币的钱比美分多。由于没有一个美分的硬币，商人将要求造币厂触发更多的五美分硬币。