[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jb8scu$q65$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article
> <733a93b7-87d0-4634-928f-e9007408fe53 at h21g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, AEF
> <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes: 
> 
>> 1) If it costs 2 cents to make a penny, then you have to find a way to
>> keep people from melting them. I suppose that's being done, but still
>> I think you see what I mean.
> 
> Melting is illegal.  OK, that doesn't stop everyone.  But melting on a 
> small scale is probably not worth the effort, and melting on a large 
> scale would be suspicious.  (In Sweden, old gold coins are still legal 
> tender, because it is illegal to melt legal tender coins.)

   The fact that it costs more than 1 cent to make a US penny doesn't
   come entirely from the cost of the materials.  A small amount of
   labor and profit (a contractor makes the blanks) are involved.

   But separating the raw materials, even on a large scale, is not
   likely to match the profitability of separating them from thier
   ores anyhow.