Re: OT currency (was Re: Quoting styles (was Re: Antipassive?))

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> There's been a movement afoot over here for years to abolish the
> penny.  I think the nickel is now in the same category (more expensive
> than itself to mint).  So I agree,  both should go. Then we could just
> drop the last digit of prices, if not for those pesky quarters.  So
> get rid of them, too! Dimes, 50-cent-pieces (a new design that's not
> so frickin huge, plz; maybe nickel-sized), dollars. With no quarter
> the dollar coin has nothing to be confused with.....
I've been wanting to see pennies go away for 25+ years. They are more of a nuisance
than anything else. I can still see keeping the nickel.

I liked the Australian way of doing it.  The smallest coin being $.05
(at least when I was there), the cash registers just round the total up or down as
needed. Not too different from the little dish full of pennies kept by the
register in most smaller shops.