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<p>[QUOTE="bdunnse, post: 1940620, member: 57317"]pdf link...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=clevstlrev" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=clevstlrev" rel="nofollow">http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=clevstlrev</a></p><p><br /></p><p>which is a very intersting read...</p><p><br /></p><p>In its exhaustive study of current problems in the American coin-age system, RTI concluded that the quarter was probably not the most efficient denomination, and that a twenty cent piece should, in an optimally efficient system, be used as a replacement. 1 6 0 RTI recognized that there was little likelihood of this occurring because "the quarter has become a standard unit of account and value ... [and] equipment modification and commercial transaction costs associated with its elimination and subsequent replacement with a twenty cent coin would far exceed those</p><p>which could be offset by the marginal increase in theoretic efficiency."'[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bdunnse, post: 1940620, member: 57317"]pdf link... [url]http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=clevstlrev[/url] which is a very intersting read... In its exhaustive study of current problems in the American coin-age system, RTI concluded that the quarter was probably not the most efficient denomination, and that a twenty cent piece should, in an optimally efficient system, be used as a replacement. 1 6 0 RTI recognized that there was little likelihood of this occurring because "the quarter has become a standard unit of account and value ... [and] equipment modification and commercial transaction costs associated with its elimination and subsequent replacement with a twenty cent coin would far exceed those which could be offset by the marginal increase in theoretic efficiency."'[/QUOTE]
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