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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;digitect, post: 1517477, member: 38157&quot;]I love the idea, goes great with my post on another forum about a week ago, I&#039;ll re-post it here:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>US to move to only Dimes and Halves?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Our politicians keep talking about eliminating the penny, but I think to effectively do it we need to move the US coin decimal point: The dime needs to be the smallest denomination. This would require eliminating the penny, the nickel, and the quarter. But it would also require a better half dollar, something most people would be comfortable carrying in quantity. So what if we also replaced the Kennedy with a Sacagawea-colored coin a fraction larger than the current nickel?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know this has been discussed here to death, but it dawned on me the other day that the problem getting rid of the penny is that both the nickel and the quarter still use fractions less than the next significant digit. If we moved all the way to the dime being the smallest, we would need a terrific half dollar that was smaller so it could be carried in bulk. You should be able to get at least 50 in a handful, something you can&#039;t really do with the Kennedy (which is why nobody carries them).</p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=127011" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=127011" rel="nofollow">Posted 08/17/2012 at CoinCommunity.com</a></i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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