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View Poll Results: Which $ dollar $ coins/paper bucks should we get rid of?
1 ¢ - penny 30 71.43%
5 ¢ - nickel 5 11.90%
10 ¢ - dime 3 7.14%
25 ¢ - quarter 0 0%
1 $ (Dollar gold coin) 9 21.43%
$1 13 30.95%
$2 (Very rare/never seen or used) 18 42.86%
$5 0 0%
$10 0 0%
$20 0 0%
$50 3 7.14%
$100 2 4.76%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 42. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-10-2009, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Texas
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What about all the poor and homeless who rely on scrounging up all the pennies they can just to get a bite to eat?
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:11 AM
 
Location: West Coast
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Says who? I'm a cashier and I get TONS of 50 dollar bills everyday.


I say get rid of pennies (a waste) and dollar coins (we have bills... and they're more convenient than carrying around tons of annoying change). I'd say get rid of the 2 dollar bill too. It serves no use.
I agree 50 dollar bills are used plenty. And in the future they will be used more... inflation people. 50 dollar bill will be the new 20.
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Durham, NC
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What about all the poor and homeless who rely on scrounging up all the pennies they can just to get a bite to eat?
I'd rather be scrounging nickels than pennies!
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Old 12-10-2009, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I'd rather be scrounging nickels than pennies!
Yes but you have to remember how much more common it is to find pennies than it is to find nickels and other coins. You take away pennies, and saving spare change becomes all the more difficult.

The $2 bill is really the only thing worthless. It's hard to find, some places might not even accept it, and people who come across one usually just keep it anyway.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:22 PM
 
Location: New York
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The penny, it doesn't really serve a purpose anymore.

The only thing is taxes in stores, I always get pennies back because things will come to something like $8.36 or some weird number like that that will require a penny. I almost never use the pennies I get back in my change.
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Old 12-10-2009, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
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Old 12-12-2009, 07:54 PM
 
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Keep the dollar coin but just make it larger and/or a different size than the quarter. (strip clubs might complain...but we need a change//pun intended )
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