What happened to 50-cent pieces?

Price granularity is an important aspect of our economy. Where would we be if my grandma can’t comparison shop for beans? Where, I tell you?! A quarter being the lowest denomination sounds a bit extreme, but a dime should do it.

Anyway, what do people think of making all the coins smaller? Why are coins so big, anyway? I guess at one time they had to actually be worth something in raw metal, but that’s as much an outdated notion now as it was in rome.

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(3) Withdraw the dollar bill – maybe Ted Kennedy (Any relation?) will have passed on by then and it will be possible.
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Yes, in fact big relation. You can find Ted in this Kennedy family tree:

Along with Arnold Schwartzenegger.

I mean, is the John W. Kennedy of Doper fame related to the Senator (and all the others).

Of course I fully understand if he doesn’t wish to tell.