techstepgenr8tion
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11 Feb 2011, 7:27 pm
vileseagulls wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
vileseagulls wrote:
In New Zealand, which a couple of years ago revalued again so that the lowest denomination is now 10 cents, the 10 cent piece is actually copper. So there's no reason to go without!
They also lightened all the coins, so that where NZ and Australia used to have identical small change, now the NZ 20 cent piece is much closer in size to the Australian 10 cent, and is much, much easier to carry in your wallet.
I find it really good, myself - I visited the US recently and was amazed by how much change I was forced to carry - whereas here you can use up your change fairly quickly, because you don't need so many coins to make up a usable sum of money.
They also lightened all the coins, so that where NZ and Australia used to have identical small change, now the NZ 20 cent piece is much closer in size to the Australian 10 cent, and is much, much easier to carry in your wallet.
I find it really good, myself - I visited the US recently and was amazed by how much change I was forced to carry - whereas here you can use up your change fairly quickly, because you don't need so many coins to make up a usable sum of money.
The one difference that I'd like to keep though, I like our $1s being paper, having to carry $1s and $2s as coins made me want to keep piling it up in the hotel room and not use it - worked out okay as I needed it for laundry and internet but otherwise it would have been really annoying.
Hey, the less coins the better. Maybe while we're being radical, you guys could vary the size/shape of paper money so blind people can easily pick denominations?
I like having different colours too, you never accidentally pick up the wrong one.Lol, or just braille code. No sense having to unfold several maps every time you stock up big at the grocery store.
