Re: Are US denominations efficient?


*** T. Winter wrote:
> In article <2d6621b24d%tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tony.clayton.1962@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> ...
> > Our local sports centre is always crying out for 5p coins, and were very
> > pleased when I used two pounds worth to pay my entrance charge the other
> > day. The problem there is size - people do not like them as they are so
> > small.
>
> Depends on the people, apparently. In the Netherlands people liked the
> 10 cent coin (before the euro) and it circulated widely. It was quite
> a bit smaller than the 5p coin. Also people here complained about the
> euro and eurocent coins. They were too large.

I read somewhere (wish I could remember where) that the hole in
the middle of a CD was designed to be the exact diameter of the Dutch
10c coin!

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