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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8321708, member: 15588"]Slight thread-jack, sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, arguably <i>all</i> current pocket change, including the quarter, exists now for the same reason that the half cent existed: to make change. Apart from receiving change from a purchase, what else can one really do today with a nickel, a dime or a quarter? Not too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even baseball cards now cost more than $1.00 a pack (though one can argue that their demographics have moved far away from kids). I remember buying them for 20¢ or 25¢ a pack, which really wasn't that long ago, so receiving a single quarter from someone back then meant actually <i>buying </i>something. I think more than just the cent lingers in precarious monetary circumstances today.</p><p><br /></p><p>The continued existence of the aluminum Japanese 1 Yen coin, worth 0.0077 of a dollar, remains even more of a mystery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8321708, member: 15588"]Slight thread-jack, sorry. Yes, arguably [I]all[/I] current pocket change, including the quarter, exists now for the same reason that the half cent existed: to make change. Apart from receiving change from a purchase, what else can one really do today with a nickel, a dime or a quarter? Not too much. Even baseball cards now cost more than $1.00 a pack (though one can argue that their demographics have moved far away from kids). I remember buying them for 20¢ or 25¢ a pack, which really wasn't that long ago, so receiving a single quarter from someone back then meant actually [I]buying [/I]something. I think more than just the cent lingers in precarious monetary circumstances today. The continued existence of the aluminum Japanese 1 Yen coin, worth 0.0077 of a dollar, remains even more of a mystery.[/QUOTE]
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