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Last day of the penny

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Thunderblue6

If you didn't already know today is the last day of the Canadian penny

Google even made a thing

o7 salute to the penny that useless coin that was always so annoying

12 years ago*

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bobofatt

Come on America, let's get on board with this.

12 years ago
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wwfarch

+10000

12 years ago
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thochaos

We got rid of our 1, 2 and 5 cent coins years ago. It was weird at first but now it doesn't even matter.

12 years ago
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BearHugger

no 1c? psh. thats ridiculous.
in the UK we still have 1p and 2p coins, hell, in mexico we still have 10c coins which is worth 0.5p

12 years ago
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KaBob

Just wondering, but how is it ridiculous?

12 years ago
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BearHugger

how do you buy a 1c candy?
or get change from something thats 99c?

12 years ago
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Shindou

Easy, there is no 1c candies anymore really, and with taxes, it really isn't 99x anyway, so just round up a bit and bam, completely even money, without the horrendous expense to produce worthless coins. Last I checked it cost the US Treasury/Mint 2.875c PER PENNY to produce...

12 years ago
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Fad

I'm confused. So, are you British or Mexican?

12 years ago
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Thunderblue6

I was thinking the same thing

12 years ago
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BearHugger

Im english, but live in mexico. Re-reading my post, i see the confusion. My bad!

12 years ago
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Crazee

There was a discussion in Parliment last week about removing the 1p from circulation. Whilst it was brief I believe that it's not the last that we'll hear of it. Got to love inflation!

12 years ago
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Sly34me

I wish to also have the one cent removed in the United States, just like we did with the half cent. xD

12 years ago
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Crazee

I remember a couple of years ago Sweden got rid of their öre, and now only have Krona is circulation.

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Closed 12 years ago by Thunderblue6.