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All this talk on whether the 5 cent piece should be scrapped..

get rid of it

funny the news report on it yesterday on Sky in the streets was trying to give away 5 cents to people walking by and no one took any

doesnt the 5c coin cost almost 4c to produce or something ridiculous

correct. And parking meters dont take them anymore....so whats the use of them

Wouldn't be surprised if, within 25 years, all coins 50c and below were scrapped and we went just to dollars.

It will just be another way for businesses to make free money, charge everything to end in 6c and take the 4c round-up.

CK wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if, within 25 years, all coins 50c and below were scrapped and we went just to dollars.

So what do we use for inpromptu 2-up?

Constance_Perm wrote:

CK wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if, within 25 years, all coins 50c and below were scrapped and we went just to dollars.

So what do we use for inpromptu 2-up?

By then, it will probably be sponsored by a particular brand of lemonade, and we will be throwing two green bottles of same in the air with "lids" and "bases".

still, i dont love collecting them myself...but hey money is money

Smiths machines in the lunchroom still take them! Takes 40 to get a packet of Life Savers if you have the patience!

only the use for them then

Sojourner wrote:Smiths machines in the lunchroom still take them! Takes 40 to get a packet of Life Savers if you have the patience!

My father in-law fills coffee tins with 10's & 5's and give them to my kids once full, I'll go to work on a Saturday for an hour and they feed the chip machine with the coins and press the reject button once they get to $2 and keep going til the machine only has 20's left to spit out.

yep have done that a few times

Even the Kiwis have gotten rid of them

i vote get rid of them.

i rarely use coins at all. during the day i might end up with a few in my wallet, the first thing i do when i get home is empty my coin section into our various tins (we have a 2litre coke bottle for $2 coins because a mate of mine told us that if you fill it up, it's $5000, we're tesing that theory! we've got a "money tree" that holds $1 coins, a tin for our wedding for 50c pieces, and the lads money tin gets all other coins)

i also vote for retailers stop selling things for $1.99 and such. outlaw that. round everything off to the nearest 10c.

I wish to god they'd get rid of our 'copper' coins...1p 2p etc. and even the 5p.
Such a pain...end up with loads and even when you save enough to bag up and take to a bank/post office to exchange for pounds they act like you just asked them to crawl over broken glass.

Only genuine downside I can perhaps think of for getting rid of the small coins is the charities that most likely manage to get quite a bit of income from people chucking them into the collecting boxes.

Regards
JAS

JAS wrote:I wish to god they'd get rid of our 'copper' coins...1p 2p etc. and even the 5p.
Such a pain...end up with loads and even when you save enough to bag up and take to a bank/post office to exchange for pounds they act like you just asked them to crawl over broken glass.

Only genuine downside I can perhaps think of for getting rid of the small coins is the charities that most likely manage to get quite a bit of income from people chucking them into the collecting boxes.

Regards
JAS

that is an excellent point, one which i never thought of. because yes, i do give a fair bit of loose change to donation tins. but i guess a lot of people like myself would still give change, albeit higher denominations, and that would probably make up for anyone that stops giving money.