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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 479653, member: 66&quot;]But even then most of the countries had already replaced their smallest size notes for a smaller size coin years earlier and in each case they made it work by eliminating the note.&nbsp; So when the Euro came out people were already used to using coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they did introduce the coins that eliminated their small denomination notes people griped then adjusted.&nbsp; Where did they learn that lesson?&nbsp; Believe it or not from the US!&nbsp; They watched what we did with the SBA back in 1979 saw the mistakes we made with the size, color, and by not eliminating the paper note and they learned from our mistakes.&nbsp; Problem is we didn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Exactly, the state quarters worked because people already used the quarters every day the acceptance was built in.&nbsp; The Sac and President dollars didn&#039;t have that built in acceptance so making a series of changing designs on a coin that no one used did not encourage their use because they never saw the new designs in their pockets every day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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