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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 7860040, member: 96746&quot;]The farthing situation was resolved in 1613 with the introduction of the copper Harington farthings, but they weren&#039;t popular. If you mean we should have had the cent as the smallest unit, then why did the US have 1/2c? When the newly independent country was designing its own currency, the logical starting point would have been to call the smallest value item 1 whatever, and build from there. Building a decimal system with additional fractional values just doesn&#039;t make sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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