# This just in...Coinage reform dead in America

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 4, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-coinage-reform-dead-in-america/101767 "2002-04-04T14:05:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-coinage-reform-dead-in-america/101767/81 "2002-04-09T14:40:55Z")

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**Math** , no, you’re not. In fact, I’ll usually be able to fish out the $.33.

Maybe it’s 'cause I’m a poor college student, but I _do_ use my change. I’ll pay exact change when buying little items. When I had to go to the laundromat, I’d save up my change for the week to pay for it.

I like coins and I like bills. I think money in general is good. I’m too broke/too stingy to just be throwing it away.

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-coinage-reform-dead-in-america/101767/82 "2002-04-09T15:53:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \*  
> If they had put Henry Wallace on that dollar, th’ citizens would have been all OVER it.

Ah, Henry Wallace. A man who, to paraphrase _Bland Ambition_, was into Eastern Mysticism at a time when Roman Catholics were seen as members of a fringe cult.

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