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[1001001]

^ From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

I'd much rather retain the dollar bill than the coin, though. I rarely use cash any more, but what I do carry I want firmly folded up in my wallet and not hanging out all loosy goosy. I don't approve of your free-swinging coin lifestyle, sir.

Just get a wallet with a coin pouch.

A coin pouch? What, so you can give quarters to the grandchildren?



Coin pouch, indeed....

 

[Lindley]

Yeah, I've had my share of those Sacajawea coins from the post office. I haven't seen a $2 bill in ages, though! I know they were discontinued for a while, but now they're back. Just seems like nobody actually uses them, especially since it can get you arrested.

If you go to Jefferson's house, you can get them as change.

 

[Lindley]

I'd much rather retain the dollar bill than the coin, though. I rarely use cash any more, but what I do carry I want firmly folded up in my wallet and not hanging out all loosy goosy. I don't approve of your free-swinging coin lifestyle, sir.

Just get a wallet with a coin pouch.

A coin pouch? What, so you can give quarters to the grandchildren?



Coin pouch, indeed....

I can attest that it's rather hard to find a good wallet with a coin pouch. Of the three I'd had, one came from Morocco and another from Dubai. Only one was bought in the US.

I always make sure my wallets have a coin pouch, though.

 

[RoJoHen]

Considering Americans have a tendency not to carry coins around with them, it doesn't surprise me that coin pouches would be difficult to find.

 

[Canadave]

Guess it's just different needs. I can always find a good wallet with a coin pouch when I go to get a new one.

 

[MacLeod]

I know a way to avoid the whole coinage thing altogether, pay by card.

 

[IndyJones]

New plastic Canadian $100 bill

It's interesting to see the anti-American tone to the comments coupled with the utter joy that Americans are talking about Canada presented in the article.

"Ugh. Americans are terrible, we're so much better. Oh, look! I think some of them just looked in our direction!!!"

Thankfully, this thread has kept a much better tone. It points to the higher quality of Canadian we have around here.

 

[Canadave]

^ That'd just be our national inferiority complex kicking it. It usually does with this sort of thing.

 

[Owain Taggart]

There are more details in this article, such as the $50 being rolled out in March, with the others following by 2013:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo... RSS/Atom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2236089

 

[scotpens]

From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

We need to get rid of the penny, too. Pennies are more trouble than they're worth. The smallest denomination of coinage should be what you can actually buy something with. Nothing costs one cent anymore, not even penny candy.

Pennies should be withdrawn from circulation and all prices rounded to the nearest nickel.

 

[cultcross]

Guess it's just different needs. I can always find a good wallet with a coin pouch when I go to get a new one.

You'd be hard pressed to find many wallets here without one, but then coinage is an essential part of our currency. If you won't carry coins, the lowest denomination you can pay with is £5. Since the pound note was discontinued, which was a long old time ago now, the £1 and later £2 coins are pretty much essential to have on you. Especially if you use paid car parks.

 

[RoJoHen]

From what I've seen, though, nobody actually uses that $1 coin. The USA really needs to phase out the $1 bill for it to take off.

We need to get rid of the penny, too. Pennies are more trouble than they're worth. The smallest denomination of coinage should be what you can actually buy something with. Nothing costs one cent anymore, not even penny candy.

Pennies should be withdrawn from circulation and all prices rounded to the nearest nickel.

I completely agree with this. Pennies are worthless.

 

[Agent Richard07]

What's next, paper credit cards?

Credit cards were made of paper when they were first introduced.

...about ten years ago, someone I worked with was showing everyone the $1000 bill he had just gotten from the bank.

I've had a few. They've been discontinued though.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Guess it's just different needs. I can always find a good wallet with a coin pouch when I go to get a new one.

You'd be hard pressed to find many wallets here without one, but then coinage is an essential part of our currency. If you won't carry coins, the lowest denomination you can pay with is £5. Since the pound note was discontinued, which was a long old time ago now, the £1 and later £2 coins are pretty much essential to have on you. Especially if you use paid car parks.

Same here. This is the first time ever I've heard about a wallet without a coin pouch. But as with the UK, the smallest bill here is €5 (almost $7, compared to £5, almost $8).

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I've never owned a wallet with a coin pouch. Coins just wind up in my pocket.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Well, I suppose it's one of those weird cultural differences you never know about except when they pop up randomly in conversation. Now you'll tell me that you don't put a couple of weasels down your pants every second Thursdays's evening and we will get into Bizarro World...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Well, I suppose it's one of those weird cultural differences you never know about except when they pop up randomly in conversation. Now you'll tell me that you don't put a couple of weasels down your pants every second Thursdays's evening and we will get into Bizarro World...

We use ferrets.

Close enough, I guess.

 

[iguana_tonante]

As long as they aren't stoats, it's all good.

 

[Canadave]

Guess it's just different needs. I can always find a good wallet with a coin pouch when I go to get a new one.

You'd be hard pressed to find many wallets here without one, but then coinage is an essential part of our currency. If you won't carry coins, the lowest denomination you can pay with is £5. Since the pound note was discontinued, which was a long old time ago now, the £1 and later £2 coins are pretty much essential to have on you. Especially if you use paid car parks.

Same here. This is the first time ever I've heard about a wallet without a coin pouch. But as with the UK, the smallest bill here is €5 (almost $7, compared to £5, almost $8).

I think when Americans hear the term coin pouch, they think of something like this, aka what old people use to carry coins in. So perhaps it's a combination of not having as great a need for it as those of us with logical coinage systems () along with it being seen as not as fashionable or some such thing,

 

[SmoothieX]

^I thought you meant a scrotum.