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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26513267, member: 4626&quot;]Except Canada <i>didn&#039;t</i> do it that way; they never declared their cents to not be legal tender, and they&#039;re in fact still legal tender now.&nbsp; They just stopped minting them and distributing them to banks.&nbsp; They also never demanded anyone turn them in (they weren&#039;t in any way recalled.)&nbsp; You can still give them to anyone willing to take them.&nbsp; Though pretty much only banks want to take them, and they&#039;re the only ones legally obligated to do so.&nbsp; (But as far as the Canadian government is concerned, cents are still money and still worth 1/100 of a Canadian dollar each.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words they did basically the same thing we did, and it didn&#039;t result in any kind of catastrophe.&nbsp; (Part of the difference was that distribution of coins is more &quot;top down&quot; in Canada than in America, but still.)&nbsp; People got used it really quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>People can get used to anything, given enough time.&nbsp; We should have done this years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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