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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doug21, post: 1048321, member: 5650&quot;]The cent is really meaningless. I&#039;m surprised Canada still has it. </p><p><br /></p><p>When the half-cent was canned in 1857 it must have had at least the purchasing power of a dime today, so it was probably like having the modern quarter as your smallest denomination ( ?).</p><p><br /></p><p>25 cent increments would be too large today, but 5 cents is fine. We could still price stuff in cents ( like a can of peas is 87 cents) just round off the total of the everything purchased.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually shouldn&#039;t there enough post 1982 cents around to last a few decades if we just stopped making them entirely ?&nbsp; There must be hundreds of them for every citizen !&nbsp; If the mint strikes 10 billion a year ( isn&#039;t that about right ?) that&#039;s like 30 for every person every year. There should be enough so every person has a can with a 1,000 pennies in it, already, and that&#039;s just the zinc ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where do they all go ?</p><p><br /></p><p>in the trash or something ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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