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Post by homeschooldad on Dec 18, 2023 18:14:18 GMT
I'm probably in the same situation. In the US, they really need to get rid of the one-cent piece (colloquially called a "penny") and possible even the five-cent piece, just round everything to the nearest five or ten cents. They do what you propose in Australia where my borther lives. He says folks complain about it. Many prices are marked $x.99 but there's no 1 cent so you can nver be givben change. If something in Oz says its $4.99 you will actually pay $5. We gets lots of loose change here in the UK in small denomination brown coins. Many refer to as shrapnel. It just ends up building up in your pockets and the next thing you have a hole worn in the pocket. Mind you cards are a problem too. I spent a few months not using my card if I could help it. I drew cash out of the bank and paid for everything in cash. It was a good exercise. I was far more aware of what I was actually spending. The Eurozone is cluttered with "brown coins" as well. They have not only a one-cent piece, but a two-cent piece, as well as 5, 10, 20 (not 25), and 50, as well as one- and two-euro coins. That's too many. But it does make for more opportunities to collect all those cool coins from different countries, denominated the same, but with designs proper to those countries.
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 19, 2023 19:13:11 GMT
You used to have a 1/2 penny coin in the UK until 1984. It had a bizarre statue as well. It was only legal tender if used on its own for purchases up to 20p and a shopkeeper could refuse it if he liked. It had virtually no purchasing power by the time it was scrapped and shops hated seeing them.
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Post by tth1 on Dec 20, 2023 15:26:45 GMT
You used to have a 1/2 penny coin in the UK until 1984. It had a bizarre statue as well. It was only legal tender if used on its own for purchases up to 20p and a shopkeeper could refuse it if he liked. It had virtually no purchasing power by the time it was scrapped and shops hated seeing them. If you ask your father there used to be coins with an even smaller denomination. I hadn't realised the ha'penny had been out of circulation since 1984.
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 20, 2023 15:43:40 GMT
Oh, I have farthings as well. I have a load of old coins belonging to my late mother going back to the 1880s.
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