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"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message news:_Zp2g.25998
> I've used it also. I think we'd be better off if everything was just
> rounded to the nearest 5¢ and did away with pennies. I like Euros for

that
> reason, especially the E1 and E2 coins.
>


It happened here in Oz a few years ago, no more 1c and 2c coins, all cash
registers do rounding to the nearest 5c but bank and credt cards are exact.
Everybody said the sky would fall in. Didn't happen. Now we are used to it
nobody even gives it a moment of thought.

David