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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3548551, member: 39"]Well, maybe those who more or less recently experienced such changes are "wiser" than those who simply believe that penny (or similarly worthless <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) coins are useful ...</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, it might make more sense to ask people in several euro countries, or Canada, or Switzerland, whether doing away with low value coins was a good idea or not. In the Netherlands for example people do have that kind of experience. After a local test in Woerden (at the end of the trial phase, 83% of the consumers responded in a positive way) rounding was introduced nationwide.</p><p><br /></p><p>In neighboring Germany however we have not even had a proper test (the experiment in Kleve was half hearted), and we are still plagued with them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> That could possibly be explained by the fact that in NL they had done that kind of rounding in pre-euro years too, while in Germany we had the 1 and 2 Pfennig coins (worth half a cent, and one cent) until the end of 2001.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3548551, member: 39"]Well, maybe those who more or less recently experienced such changes are "wiser" than those who simply believe that penny (or similarly worthless ;) ) coins are useful ... In other words, it might make more sense to ask people in several euro countries, or Canada, or Switzerland, whether doing away with low value coins was a good idea or not. In the Netherlands for example people do have that kind of experience. After a local test in Woerden (at the end of the trial phase, 83% of the consumers responded in a positive way) rounding was introduced nationwide. In neighboring Germany however we have not even had a proper test (the experiment in Kleve was half hearted), and we are still plagued with them. :confused: That could possibly be explained by the fact that in NL they had done that kind of rounding in pre-euro years too, while in Germany we had the 1 and 2 Pfennig coins (worth half a cent, and one cent) until the end of 2001. Christian[/QUOTE]
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