Obama could hand off the matter to economic adviser (penny czar?) Austan Goolsbee, who endorsed another idea in a 2007 New York Times op-ed: Just make each penny worth five cents!
I don't think "I will seriously consider it" is actually a promise to get rid of them. His answer was good enough at the time to appease the questioner. Politics at its best.
Where and how to you sell your copper pennies? I just started a month ago and have @ 100 lbs, hand sorting is getting harder every night. I'm not trying to sell ,but just wanted to know how people sell off their copper. Thanks