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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 2678355, member: 18157&quot;]Have you ever tried to buy anything with a quarter?</p><p><br /></p><p>I had some time to kill a while back so I went into a Rite-Aid Pharmacy and tried to find something (anything) I could buy with a quarter. If they didn&#039;t have gumball machine at the front door, I would have been SOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Coins for Commerce&quot; doesn&#039;t mean valueless hunks of metal used to see how finely we can slice a strand of hair...it means coins that actually &quot;buy&quot; something and you get other coins in change that, themselves, can actually &quot;buy&quot; something.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quarter today has the purchasing power of about what 1.5¢ had 50 years ago. In 1967, we didn&#039;t have half cents, quarter cents, or tenth cents...which is what we effectively have now.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s time to ditch these worthless, obsolete denominations (like other countries all over the world have done already) and start producing &quot;real&quot; coins again...coins of value, coins that circulate, coins worth collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>...coins that don&#039;t cost more to produce than they&#039;re worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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