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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 288384, member: 9270&quot;]Dump the cent.</p><p>It&#039;s not used in commerce much more than the half dollar is except as change for the consumer.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was in NZ in <u>1994</u> and they had discontinued the penny.</p><p>Everything worked just fine.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My question is:</p><p>&quot;Why is it that the USA is the <u>last</u> to get clued in on a smart monetary system?&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dump the cent; go to nickel breakage.</p><p>Dump the circulating half dollar; use it as a commemorative value.</p><p>Dump the paper dollar; resize the dollar coin to the current half dollar size. That will alleviate the recognition problem. And with the dollar bill gone, two dollar bills will circulate rather than molding away the the Federal Reserve vaults.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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