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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1724264, member: 66&quot;]Of course they will whine.&nbsp; In every country where they introduced a coin and eliminated the paper note the people whined for awhile then accepted it and moved on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a couple million a year not multiple billions.&nbsp; If it cost multiple billions of dollars to store one billion dollars in coins, you are doing something wrong.&nbsp; Actually what lead to the ending of the dollar coins for circulation was they were going to have to build a new storage warehouse for the coins at a cost of 600K dollars.&nbsp; Or .06% of the amount being stored, and it would have been a one time shot that would have allowed for the storage of a LOT more coins.&nbsp; So they had to chose, spend $600K for a new warehouse, discontinue the dollar note and they wouldn&#039;t need the extra storage, or stop making the dollar coin for circulation and lose nearly $400 Million a year in seigniorage profits.&nbsp; They chose to throw away the $400,000,000 to save $600,000..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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