I would like the 20 cent piece to return.

As a cashier, I find this coin would come in handy.

If your change is 43 cents, you get back a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and 3 cents.

But with the twenty cent piece, you get 2 20c pieces, and 3 cents. 5 coins instead of 6.

If your change is 24 cents, you would normally get two dimes, and 4 cents, that's 6 coins.

With the 20c peice, you get one 20c peice, and 4 cents. 5 coins instead

If your change is 97 cents, you get back 3 quarters, 2 dimes, and 2 cents. That's 7 coins.

With the 20c piece, you get back 3 quarters, one 20c piece, and 2 cents. That's six coins.

Boom, 3 transactions that eliminated the use of an additional coin.

The UK does not use the 25 cent piece, it uses the 20 cent piece. So does Australia and a host of other countries.

I say we should add the 20c piece back to our coinage.

 

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Why not just propose a 43 cent piece? Then you would only have to give back one coin.


It doesn't matter, soooooner ( I know you hate that word) or later , it will all be digital and everyone will point at this post of yours and say that it killed coin collecting.

 

I rarely use cash, let alone coins. I use debit cards for almost everything.

 

Soon, we will all pay with the chip imbedded under our skin. Many are already working on this. It's the mark of the beas.... never mind, it may get into politics or religion.

 

Soon, I will be going to bed............

And I ain't gonna be dreaming about 'modern' 20 cent pieces.

But maybe 'classic' ones.........still need one for the collection.

 

I bought this one probably 30-40 years ago just to have one.

 

Sweet indeed.......

 

Thank you. At one time I wanted to have one of every denomination the US had produced. I have 0.5 cent, cent, 2 cent, 3 cent, 5 cent, ten cent, twenty cent, twenty-five cent, fifty cent and one hundred cent. When I got to gold, I stopped.

 

Credit cards = no change needed.


On a side note; does the first sentence ("As a cashier") imply that you have a job? If so, congrats! Though, if that's true then it raises a lot of questions about your work ethic because of the original reason behind posting this thread.

 

Issues like this one boil down to what one is used to, I think. In the Netherlands before the euro, they had a 25 cent coin, but also a 25 gulden note. And I suppose that, without the gulden > euro changeover, they would still have those denominations. Today it's 20 cent and 20 euro. What I find strange about US cash is that you have a quarter, thus 25 cents, but a $20 bill. But that is not going to change ...

Christian

 

But in Germany they never had a 20 pf or 20 cent coin until the Euro. There was a the very brief experiment with 25 pf coins ca. 1909, but they were about as popular as the 4 pf coins of 1932. I remember in the DM days thinking it was curious how the coins skipped from 10 pf to 50 pf with no 20 or 25 pf.

It is unusual to do a switch over from one to the other, but Ukraine did it in 1996 with the 25 kopiyok coin - previously in the USSR there were denominations of 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 kopeks and 1 Ruble. There were a few 15 and 20 kopiyok patterns made in Luhans'k but the plans for those denominations were quickly dropped.



Talk about a weird denomination.

 

Ah, but I was referring to NL, not DE. Come to think of it, while the Federal Republic of Germany never had a 20 pfennig coin, the German Reich had one between 1873 and the early 20th century. In 1909 a 25 pf coin was introduced instead. But that but turned out to be unpopular, and since then (1916 or so) there has been that gap between 0.10 and 0.50 ... Also, the German Democratic Republic (East G.) had a 20 pf coin between 1969 and 1990.

That 0.15 denomination is indeed unusual (I think they also had it in Romania, but maybe only because the USSR had it ). As for the US, however ... well, with my Dutch example I wanted to show that, when you go through a major change anyway, it is also easier to introduce a new denomination or setup. But there won't be such a change in the US any time soon. So yes, while a 0.20 / 20.00 system (or maybe 0.25 / 25.00) would be more logical, it's not going to happen.

Christian

 

It would help if half dollars actually circulated. However, this is all solved easily by electronic transactions. TC

 

Brilliant deductions! Had you not given such incredible examples of how the 20C could make my life so much easier, I would never have seen the light. Who needs two dimes when you could have one 20C instead! But alas... there are still those pesky "pennies" to contend with; shall we soon bring the 2C and 3C back too?

 

But Detecto, Where would you put the 20 cent pieces in the cash register?

 

Tim has to be the worst drive by poster ever. Does he ever respond back in his own threads?

 

Romania did intro those 3 factor denominations in the 1960s, but they were quickly called in and demonetised - sort of like some communist bureaucrats pet project got axed. Romania by then was pretty much charting it's own course that wasn't really too influenced by the USSR - in comparison look at Bulgaria with it's money then being so USSRified in looks that you could have probably gotten away with spending the other country's coins in the other one.

 

There was an episode of Married With Children where Steve (or was it Jefferson?) pouted over the rejection of his proposed 99 cent coin. Al: "What about tax?" Steve (or Jefferson?): "That's just what they said!"