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   On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:03:16 -0500, Turd Ferguson wrote:   
      
   > COIN LOSS: The United States ended production of the penny on Wednesday.   
   > For more than 230 years, the penny has circulated through American piggy   
   > banks and cash registers. But rising production costs – each penny now   
   > costs nearly 4 cents to make – and shifts in consumer behavior have made   
   > it impractical to keep producing them.   
      
   In the EU, it didn't take long to change the rules about 1 and 2 cent   
   (eurocent if you will). But it wouldn't be the EU if the rules weren't   
   different in the member states. Some countries stopped using them,   
   others still use them and then there are countries who use rounding.   
      
   These are the rounding rules in Belgium:   
      
      
   I'm guessing this is just temporary until it's decided that we too won't   
   use 1 and 2 cent anymore.   
      
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