• hightrix@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I disagree. I hate carrying any coins, while dollars of any denomination fit nicely in my wallet.

    I have a hunch that if we were to swap to these instead of paper dollars for $1, prices would go up simply because retailers would you d everything up to the nearest $5 increment.

    • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Canadian here, between electronic payments and coins being more durable than paper or polymer money, retailers don’t have any incentive to charge a less competitive price.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      That didn’t happen in Australia when we replaced our $1 note with a $1 coin.

      But these days, it’s a non issue, because as a country, we basically don’t use cash at all

    • AscendantSquid@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Isn’t the wallet thing kinda backwards though? Like, it’s not as if we all had wallets perfectly sized to carry this kind of paper money before the paper dollar was introduced.

      I figure that if coins had been the predominant form of currency for at least the past century, we’d have a great way to carry coins other than a pouch, and paper money would be inconvenient.