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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 1378084, member: 22476&quot;]. </p><p><br /></p><p>No it wouldn&#039;t. The new halves would be a nonagon shape (distinguishible by touch for the blind) and copper colored (distinguishible for everyone else.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So what if I change the shape of the half, to give it the ability to be made smaller and lighter than two quarters, yet easily told apart from a quarter, nickel or dollar?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Umm...Read some of my past threads, where people have told me that, ALL vending machine coin mechs would have to be replaced for a coin larger than the current, small dollar coin. A current half, as I understand it, will not work in current vending machines, but may work in self checkouts since the slot is big enough, if that counts.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have read this too. People think that, with electronic methods of pay, that there is no demand for these large denominations, which is totally false. The only reason there is no demand for them, is because they are no longer in print. Same as with dollar coins. There is no demand for dollar coins, halves or $2 bills, because many banks either, do not stock them, or do not tell their customers they have them, unless they ask, and these banks usually refuse to order dollar coins because they fear they will just have to ship them back to the Federal Reserve banks. Same thing, probably goes for $2 bills and halves. I have seen MANY cash deals done at stores, where the person could have used a $500 or even a $1,000 bill, in all of the $100 bills they spent, including someone who spent over $800 in $100 bills. Gee, I wonder if using a $1,000 bill and getting $100-$200 back in change, or spending a $500, $200, and $100 bill would have been easier than counting out all of those $100 bills. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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