Reading an article in this week's Numismatic News asking readers if they favor abolishing the lowly cent. A CNBC Poll of 3322 participants revealed that 75% said yes, abolish the cent. 28% said no to the idea and 4% said they were not sure.

Nearly 60% of the US. Mint output is cents.. In the year 2011, 4.9 billion cents were struck. In the first11 months of 2015 it was 8.9 billion cents.

What are YOUR thoughts?