Comments on: Death to Pennies http://vtn3.com/2006/11/11/death-to-pennies/ Web Home for the Nortons Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:14:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mick http://vtn3.com/2006/11/11/death-to-pennies/#comment-16 mick Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:37:00 +0000 http://l33tw4r3.com/home/2006/11/11/death-to-pennies/#comment-16 I love the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie>Canadian "double Loonie"</a> - their two dollar coin. I love the Canadian “double Loonie” - their two dollar coin.

]]> By: uberwald http://vtn3.com/2006/11/11/death-to-pennies/#comment-15 uberwald Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:18:00 +0000 http://l33tw4r3.com/home/2006/11/11/death-to-pennies/#comment-15 I like the idea, but it feels like deflation -- of the sort that happened with the peso... dime becomes the penny, quarter becomes useless, fifty cent piece becomes the nickel, dollar coin becomes the dime, 2 dollar coin becomes sort of like a quarter, and so on down the line... The ten is the lowest bill, just like the dollar used to be... I'd buy the commemorative whatchas, that's for sure... I like the idea, but it feels like deflation — of the sort that happened with the peso…

dime becomes the penny, quarter becomes useless, fifty cent piece becomes the nickel, dollar coin becomes the dime, 2 dollar coin becomes sort of like a quarter, and so on down the line… The ten is the lowest bill, just like the dollar used to be…

I’d buy the commemorative whatchas, that’s for sure…

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