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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 26091278, member: 16729&quot;]Multiples of 10 wouldn&#039;t bother me.&nbsp; &quot;10&quot; is a magic number.&nbsp; Like the metric system.</p><p><br /></p><p>South Korea did it in the early 1980s when the government there no longer gave nor received currency in units less than 10-Won <b><i>increments.&nbsp; </i></b>This was an effort to get rid of their Five-Won and One-Won coins.&nbsp; Their government also no longer figured taxes or utilities in unit increments below 10-Won.&nbsp; This mattered because at that time, Koreans commonly paid these bills in cash at their local banks.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t stop people from using the One-Won or Five-Won, or even remove them from circulation.&nbsp; Just the action of the government no longer figuring taxes and utilities below 10-Won seemed to have done the trick:&nbsp; Apparently, merchants followed suit voluntarily and those coins rapidly disappeared from circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>They still make those two lower-value coins, but only for mint sets/gift sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best part of getting rid of the cent coins is that my Lincoln Cent collection will become worth a million dollars overnight.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m stoked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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