YES!!!!! We were just discussing pennies this week. How silly that everyone just handed them over. I paid for them. One way or another. And...they are valuable...as COPPER. In fact, they are more valuable as metal than currency at this point. I do understand the argument that the "Bank of Canada" owns them. However, then they should have bought them back. Instead, there were little collection jars everywhere...and people just dropped them in!!!

I have been bartering more and more, and I love it. I have no problem with the concept of currency. However, it is not the currency itself that holds the value. It is the promise of trade that holds value. How much more lovely for that promise to occur between two people than a large corporation.

Thank-you for posting this...I am glad others are on the same wavelength.