Welcome to leavethepenny.org
Our mission is to eliminate the penny from circulation. It costs nearly 3 cents to produce every penny. When has it ever made “cents” to pay more for something than you could sell it. Time and time again people have tried to eliminate the useless penny but continue to fail. We believe the best way to solve this problem is to leave the penny behind at each transaction. Why keep it when you likely won’t spend it at a future transaction? If you want to save them for a later to make a little money, just remember every $100 in pennies weighs an estimated 55 pounds! and… all every man, woman and child end up footing the $179 million dollars to mint the penny and nickel.