I propose we abolish the penny and nickel and issue a 6-cent coin

[struggle4progress]

We could still hand a penny back and forth by exchanging a quarter for four 6-centers, so we don't really lose anything and there's one less denomination to remember

[HopeHoops]

1. The dime really is tne minimal necessary denomination now.

And yes, the penny and nickel both cost more to make than they are worth, but the treasury makes the most money on the dollar coins and I LOVE using those. There are places where you REALLY don't want to pull out a wallet.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. I disagree. It is the quarter. Around here anyway ...

the kids at the driveup windows look at you like you are nutz if you expect change back less than a quarter.

[Moondog]

5. Can't make change, huh?

I weep for the future.

[HopeHoops]

10. I owed $6.04 at the register recently. I handed over $10.04 and the girl got out her cell phone.

She was going to use the calculator on her phone to figure out the change. E-FUCKING-GADS! I explained that the change would be $4.00 and she said, "I'm bad at math."

[JTG of the PRB]

3. If we do get rid of the penny and the nickel, can we call the new 6-cent piece the "Pickle"?

Please?

"Alright, your total comes to nineteen dollars and ninety four cents. Out of twenty? Alright, here's a pickle back for ya'."

Come on. That would be AWESOME.

[struggle4progress]

4. Yay! I further propose that we mint them by

welding a penny and a nickel together

[Bucky]

7. That sounds a lot better than calling it the "Ninny"

[Iggo]

9. Damn! I'm six cents short.

Can you slip me a pickle?

Wait a second...

[Brother Buzz]

6. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel.

Well, I'll go further than that. I'll get off at the depot. The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

[struggle4progress]

8. He was soooo ahead of his time

[hobbit709]

11. Back in the 70's when I was in Italy.

The smallest coin was the 10 lire-looked like a small dime made of aluminum.
If there was an odd number of lire due in change, the storekeeper gave you a couple pieces of candy.

[struggle4progress]

12. I remember those things. They sounded cheap when you dropped them: they did not ring nicely

A few of them would be the deposit for an empty glass bottle of sparkling water

[meow2u3]

13. What? American Sixpence?

Sing a song of sixpence
is something I can't buy
Four and twenty centies
Ain't gonna fly....


:) :P

[struggle4progress]

14. Oh pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie

Foreign twenty black boards baked until they cry
Winnipeg was open the burst again to sing
Oh worsen that a Danish ditch was two-by-four the king

The king was in a pallor, counterfeiting moneys
The queen was in a tizzy reading all the funnies
The maid was in the garden hanging by her toes
Along came a north wind and that's the way she froze

- Walt Kelly