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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7850494, member: 66&quot;]They won&#039;t have to do anything, prices will still be in odd amounts, ending in 9&#039;s for that psychological kick.&nbsp; 3.20 pounds of ground beef at $3.99 a pound is $12.77 with 7% sales tax is $13.66 which the register will automatically round to $13.65</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It takes an act of Congress to change a coins design, or composition, or to authorized a new denomination or to eliminate a denomination.&nbsp; But the Federal reserve can decide on their own to simply stop ordering a denomination from the mint, in which case the mint stops making them for circulation.&nbsp; They did this with half dollars in 2002, with nickels and dimes in 2009, with dollar coins in 2012.&nbsp; The denominations were still authorized, but they stopped making them for circulation.&nbsp; They could do the same thing with cents.&nbsp; No action from Congress needed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No I didn&#039;t start with gold, I started with nickels and most started with cents.&nbsp; If you got rid of cents and five cents new collectors would have to start with dimes.&nbsp; But is that really that great a hardship?&nbsp; Todays dime has 66% the purchasing power that a cent had when I started collecting.&nbsp; It has 13% of the purchasing power a nickel had when I stated collecting those.&nbsp; So starting with dimes today is much cheaper than it was when I started with nickels[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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