• grue@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    We should’ve discontinued the dollar bill so that these coins would get used in the US, too.

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      4 months ago

      I disagree. I hate carrying any coins, while dollars of any denomination fit nicely in my wallet.

      I have a hunch that if we were to swap to these instead of paper dollars for $1, prices would go up simply because retailers would you d everything up to the nearest $5 increment.

      • AscendantSquid@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Isn’t the wallet thing kinda backwards though? Like, it’s not as if we all had wallets perfectly sized to carry this kind of paper money before the paper dollar was introduced.

        I figure that if coins had been the predominant form of currency for at least the past century, we’d have a great way to carry coins other than a pouch, and paper money would be inconvenient.