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They're not worth anything, never were but even less through the years with inflation.

If a store wants to sell something for 99 cent, they can either just take 1โ‚ฌ or 95 cent.

Maybe even 5 cent pieces? But that would be a bit radical.

I am a bit annoyed that easy ideas like this are never discussed in politics, or wherever. It would make our lives just a little bit easier, and having them achieves NOTHING.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, I don't mind paper bills at all. I was only questioning the point of replacing our bills with coins if you make the coins to be basically round bills.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but I wasn't suggesting that we should replace bills with coins.

I'm just pointing out that bills are not inherently safer than coins, and that coins are not inherently less safe than bills. It just depends on how much effort you want to invest in either to make them harder to counterfeit.