Well, I'm from Europe --- and I can't stand the dollar bill. It's just too niggling an amount of money to be worth getting my wallet out for. Whenever I visit t

Well, I'm from Europe --- and I can't stand the dollar bill. It's just too niggling an amount of money to be worth getting my wallet out for. Whenever I visit the US I always ask for change in dollar coins instead of bills (which tends to get some rather odd looks), and once in Dallas I resorted to feeding banknotes into a DART ticket machine, because it would give change in dollar coins. In the UK, where I grew up, the smallest (proper) banknote is five pounds (worth about seven dollars). (The (proper) is because there are still some Scottish one pound notes floating around. I believe they're still valid, but they're not printed any more and so are decades old and disgusting, and you need to be really unlucky to see one.) In Switzerland, where I live, it's ten francs (worth about ten dollars). Switzerland actually has five franc coins, which are amazingly chunky things. ...the smallest coin in Switzerland, BTW, is five rappen (one rappen is a hundredth of a franc). The two rappen coin was deprecated in 1978, and the one rappen coin in 2007.