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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nickelsorter2017, post: 2765017, member: 87853&quot;]People like what they are used to using. Cashers do what they are told to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>The resistance to halves and dollars is caused by the business community which refuses to round prices to the nearest dime, and give out halves and dollars, and shove the paper dollars in the safe - instead of the halves and dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a difference between what people say they want and what people actually do. If people wanted pennies and nickels, why do businesses have pennies and nickels in &#039;free&#039; containers??? The answer is that they don&#039;t want pennies and nickels... businesses are forcing them on the customers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old people who remember when a penny bought a piece of candy complain more than the Millennials who throw pennies and nickels at each other for fun and refuse to pick them up off the ground because it&#039;s not worth their effort.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are business who round up and don&#039;t use pennies. You just don&#039;t hear about them because they aren&#039;t newsworthy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also... people (in general) stopped collecting current US circulation coins way back in the 1980s. The same time that I stopped.</p><p><br /></p><p>The people in charge of the US Mint <u>insist</u> upon keeping pennies and nickels against the popular consensus because the mint does not have to answer to the general public directly. The general public would like a smaller half dollar. The mint could care less. The general public hates the current coin designs with presidents on them. The mint could care less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cause and effect. The general public has little power to change what the mint produces and how businesses price products and services. You are looking at the situation backwards. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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