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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1652050, member: 37498&quot;]Sure, it&#039;s better to get one coin in change instead of two, but there&#039;s also a tradeoff of having too many choices.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve ever worked a cash register, you&#039;d see it&#039;s easier and faster to scoop three coins from one tray than it is to scoop one coin from one tray, move to the next, and scoop another coin from a different tray.</p><p><br /></p><p>In all, we have:</p><p><br /></p><p>.01</p><p>.05</p><p>.10</p><p>.25</p><p>.50</p><p>1.00 (Which is redundant with the $1 bill)</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO - 6 different denominations of coins is just too many for most people, and is evidenced by most people being perfectly content using only:</p><p><br /></p><p>.01</p><p>.05</p><p>.10</p><p>.25</p><p><br /></p><p>If the penny ever goes the way of the Canadian Dodo, I could see halves or dollar coins become more popular since cash register trays would be accomodating the same number of denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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