From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In <10f3cvk$sen$1@reader2.panix.com> SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com (J.D.   
   Baldwin) writes:   
      
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   >> The real question is why we don't have coins to replace $1 and $5   
   >> currency.   
      
   >Because we are Americans, and we are simultaneously smarter than, and   
   >way stupider than, the rest of the world.   
      
   >Smarter because we know that coins for denominations like $1 are   
   >idiotic -- I'm carrying about 30 bills right now (not just ones, but   
   >they might as well be), and it's a trivial weight. But 30 hefty coins   
   >are a different matter entirely. That would suck to carry around.   
      
   >Stupider because when we finally came up with a dollar coin intended   
   >to be introduced into regular circulation, we made it look really   
   >close to the quarter. God, we're idiots.   
      
   Hence we should look to the north (for most of us) to   
   our neighbor, Canada, and check out their two dollar   
   coin affectionetly called the "toonie".   
      
   Note how it's a two parter, with a separate   
   disc sticking up from the center.  Very easy   
   to tell from the others.   
      
   (their one dollar coin, which has an engraved "loon"   
   on it, is called... a "loonie", hence the obivous   
   extension to the toonie..   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie.   
      
      
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