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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26082294, member: 4626&quot;]Wouldn&#039;t be that much weirder than a 20 cent piece I guess.&nbsp; But the math on how to figure out how to give change with the thing...</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe we should just get rid of nickels too and round all cash transactions to the nearest dime.&nbsp; But then you&#039;d have weird combinations with the quarters...</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, get rid of the penny, get rid of the nickel, get rid of the quarter, and bring back the 20 cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well maybe not.&nbsp; I like my original idea, get rid of the penny, make the nickel out of something cheaper, then just round cash transactions to the nearest nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should point out something I mentioned before that we&#039;re only going to stop minting pennies; the pennies that already exist aren&#039;t being recalled, and aren&#039;t losing their legal tender status.&nbsp; People can still take them to banks, or give them to retailers still willing to accept them; that&#039;s the way Canada did it too when they did the same thing 12 years ago.&nbsp; And it&#039;s worked out just fine for them; all the things people feared getting rid of the penny would do, did not come to pass.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t result in a significant loss to either side of retail transactions, and didn&#039;t cause inflation or a significant difference in consumer behavior.&nbsp; And it didn&#039;t cause the Canadian Mint to have to make a bunch more nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know, it&#039;s easy to say we should get rid of the coins that cost more than their face value to mint but then you have to deal with a system that&#039;s gotten used to them being around, and hoping consumer and retail behavior catches up.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you have to rip off the band-aid sometime.&nbsp; Start with the penny and we&#039;ll figure it out from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>All this while cash is being used less and less anyway lol.&nbsp; I think it will all work out fine in the long run.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m not worried we&#039;ll run out of coins to collect.&nbsp; There&#039;s still plenty out there and they&#039;re making more all the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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