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As a US citizen, I'd use cash a lot more if we didn't have coin change. Paper money can be neatly organized in my wallet but pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarte
by crysin 8y ago
As a US citizen, I'd use cash a lot more if we didn't have coin change. Paper money can be neatly organized in my wallet but pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters make it a hassle to handle and more likely for me to lose money.
- maxk42 8y agoI just dump it in the tip jar. No tip jar? No problem. I've got one at home. Every six months or so I take it to the Coinstar and trade it for $100 in neat little bills.
- amag 8y agoHehe, that's what a lot of people I know in Sweden did, and then the Riksbank changed all the coins a couple of years back and it was a big hassle to find any place that would accept huge amounts of old coins without charging huge amounts of money for it.
- Symbiote 8y agoAmerican coins are not very user friendly. The big 25¢ coin isn't worth much, the tiny 10¢ is tiny, the 5¢ far too large, the 1¢ close to worthless. It's rare that you could make a purchase with only a few coins. Most other wealthy countries with coins have a reasonable relation between the size (and often colour) of the coin and the value, and the coins have useful value. These are the Euro coins [1], one of each is €3.88 — already we can buy something! The €1 and €2 are thicker than the others, although of similar diameter to your quarter. I much prefer this to the fairly dirty $1 bills in the US. Euro coins: https://df2sm3urulav.cloudfront.net/tenants/ca/uploads/images/5000-9999/7440/7440_1326219271.jpg https://df2sm3urulav.cloudfront.net/tenants/ca/uploads/image... — some countries don't use the 1 and 2¢ coins.