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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1435743, member: 26302&quot;]I would say its cleaner just to redesign all coins at once. Make the vending machines change just one time. Eliminate the cent, make a small copper colored 5 cent piece, make the dime a little larger than 5 cent piece, quarter a touch larger than current nickel, half dollar about the size of a current quarter, then have the dollar coin and spec out a $2 coin for future minting. This way all of our coins now and in the future can go into vending machines, we would use 50 cent pieces again, and eliminate the dollar bill, and eliminate the $2 when we make a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, but having our old oddball sizes based upon what metal used to be in the denominations makes no sense. Looking around the world we have the worst coinage system in terms of anyone trying to learn it from a foreign country. Might as well update the whole shebang in one fell swoop. Who else has their 2 smallest denominations LARGER than a bigger denomination? Why do we refuse to put numerals on our coins? Someone should tell the mint the whole world does not speak English, or know what a &quot;dime&quot; is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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