:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Man, that was a groaner, alright…
I am not a fan.
Make a damn coin and stick with it, please. I do not need, or want, four variants of pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters.
It’s a nice design, but I have to say I’m in favor of getting rid of the penny. They’re almost completely worthless; I’d need a roll of 50 pennies just to buy a tiny snack-sized bag of potato chips, which is just about the cheapest item you can buy these days.
Rounding off to the nearest 5 cents for people who pay in cash (check, credit card, and debit card purchases still being figured to the cent) would be fine by me.
How big a geek am I that my first thought upon seeing that was “Hey, look! It’s Captain America’s original shield!”
Nice design … but get rid of the penny, nickel, and dime. Round to the nearest quarter. Get rid of the $1 note.
That way, nobody can “nickel and dime you to death.”
Please don’t tall me the penny will still be around 50 years from now. It outlived its usefulness years ago.
She does her best, but five-year-olds get confused easily.
The combination of fonts and sizes is awkward. It gives it a slapped together look to me, like something in a local newspaper advertisement. Also, the shield and fonts are very retro looking. Overall, it makes me think it should be some kind of token from the 30s or 40s.
To coin a phrase.
Like the one that looks like it’s commemorating Kramerfrom Seinfeld?
It’s just a coin. Nothing to get incentsed about.
“Clean and modern.”?! It looks very like something from a 1940’s propaganda comic book!
:rolleyes: Sales taxes in my state are computed as proportions of the whole, then rounded to the nearest cent. It’s exactly the same kind of computation to round to the nearest nickel, or dollar. In fact, income taxes are only figured to the dollar.
That said, I suspect that if not for sales taxes, we very likely would rarely use anything smaller than a quarter in any case.
Which of course makes sense as the penny primarily exists to appeal to those nostalgic for that era. :smack:
What I meant was that it’s not going to work if the sales tax is different from state to state. At least, to me, that always seemed to be the reason it was possible in other countries.
WTA:We are talking about having prices on the shelves/menu already reflect taxes, right?
OOOH!
Good lookin’!
I don’t mind pennies, but when are we going to get a workable dollar coin??
(Yeah, I know, never, because people loves them their greenbacks.)
What is wrong with this country that our coins don’t have numbers on them?
I feel so bad for foreign visitors who don’t know the language and just want to know which of these things is worth 5 and which is worth 10.
Nah, ol’ Abe has all the mojo he needs right here…[SFW]
Twenty years ago I was wondering whether they might decide to retire the penny in 2009.