Currency Changes

[4thofeleven]

Five cent coins to go the way of one and two cents.

Look, on the one hand, I agree – five cent coins are effectively worthless. On the other hand – if you’re making the smallest unit of currency the ten cent coin… Well, hell, why not go the whole way and eliminate cents altogether? Ten cent coins aren’t particularly useful either.

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

Hey, at least your government is taking these baby steps. We still have one-cent coins here. If I were Currency Czar, I'd eliminate the penny and the nickel right now. (The dime and the quarter still have their uses, for instance in vending machines, though I suspect the dime not for long.)

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, but those are US cents - that's like, 1.2 Australian cents! Totally worth keeping around!

And I've always kind of wished we had a quarter-dollar coin...

[sunnyskywalker]

*imagines a 1.2 cent coin* Oh yes, now I see the uses! Wait...

Supposedly pennies actually cost money to handle the useless things or something (not sure about the details). Worthless coins.

I've never understood why the half-dollar coin hasn't caught on. Maybe it will now that the half-dollar is far more useful than the frakking penny.