Walking back from my mailbox today I chanced to spy a nickle on the ground. I had to ponder a moment or two whether or not to pick it up (I stopped picking up
pennies long ago). Of all our coins I deem nickles to be the most useless. So I thought It might be amusing to have a poll about the usefulness of the various
coin denominations. Which in your opinion is the most useless? Please comment on your reasoning. Since it cost more than a penny to make a penny, can they
just be eliminated?
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Posts: 799 04/23/2008 12:26 Angry Andy |
"You can't make new old friends"
 Andy
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Posts: 239 04/23/2008 16:07 |
I'm walking along a sidewalk,4 maybe 5 years old. I spy a penny laying on the sidewalk and for no reason other than a young mans ignorance, kick the coin
along with my foot. Next thing I remember I'm looking up at the sky and see my Grandfathers face staring down, what happened? I slapped some sense into
your young head he says, why, what did I do?
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt do not deserve to be kicked around by you or anybody else....they deserve better after what they sacrificed for you and I. Ever since ...when I see a coin laying around on the ground being dis-respected, I pick it up, dust it off and put it in my pocket...next young man I see, or elderly person I meet I give to them. just my upbringing......from an old Swedish cabinet maker Monty Montana
Your Signature ... I fish via our criminal justice system..."Catch and release"
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Posts: 1431 04/23/2008 17:53 |
The one dollar coins need to go for one reason...there is no place for them in a cash drawer of a cash register. The fact that there are so many different sizes, shapes, colors etc makes them un-usable in most vending machines to. I think they are still a novelty the the Fed can't shake itself from. Utilitarian-wise, they make perfect sense!!! They definitely last longer than a paper dollar. |
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Posts: 600 04/23/2008 18:35 |
Why isn't the Spanish Escudo on the Poll list? They not only don't work in any vending machines but that nasty yellow metal weighs a ton and pulls my
pants down.
Ken A Curmudgeon is just an Old Fart with outlet malfunction. You'd be grumpy, too. |
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Posts: 65 04/23/2008 19:45 |
My vote is to divide the penny into tenths.........
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Posts: 79 04/23/2008 22:23 |
i still pick up most coins i see.
BUT i think we've nearly reached a point where you could do away with all coins.just round everything up or down to the nearest dollar. there aren't many things UNDER a dollar any more,but those that are ,make them two or three for a dollar. |
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Posts: 812 04/24/2008 08:34 |
Round it down? Surely, you jest. We don't need to give anyone an excuse to increase prices. Get rid of the dollar coin. They're too heavy, and a lousy
fit in a wallet.
Back in the Precambrian Era, when I was a kid, we would look for pennies on the several mile walk to the lake. If we found one, it was a lucky day, and we were going to catch fish. |
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Posts: 2615 04/24/2008 10:27 |
Most would grant that Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack has more tedious moralizing about what to do with pennies than any other
popular writing in American, and likely in all of human, history. It seems that Americans never tire of picking up pennies and are ever eager to know what the
hell to do with them. Here is what Poor Richard suggests in one of the Almanack's more soporific essays, "Hints for Those That
Would Be Rich." It is, or at least should have been, the absolute last word on this subject, on credit buying, and on the strange multiplication whereby
a penny "sav'd" becomes twopence and then a groat, doing its thing with the same robustness and consequences as a randy jackrabbit. There
isn't much written about groats, by the way. Franklin, frankly, was one of the few persons to get much excited about them.
Consider then when you are tempted to buy any unnecessary Householdstuff, or any superfluous thing [e.g., a Granger 8040], whether you will be willing to pay Interest, and Interest upon Interest for it as long as you live; and more if it grows worse by using. Yet, in buying goods, 'tis best to pay Ready Money, because, He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up for that Deficiency. Those who pay for what they buy upon Credit [Franklin would probably grant you editorial liberty to write in "Plastic" here] pay their Share of the Advance. He that pays ready Money [Keep picking up those coppers, lads] escapes or may escape that Charge [Glory hallelujah! How much more incentive do you need to look to your feet and upon someone else's carelessly dropped coins with affection, stoop and pocket them, and thus have a leg up on becoming rich ?]. A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear, A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year.
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Posts: 2398 04/24/2008 10:33 Moderatus Britannicus |
Consider then when you are tempted to buy any unnecessary Householdstuff, or any superfluous thing [e.g., a Granger 8040],Look out ... is that the stampede of feet heading for the B Hills I hear or just them keyboards rattling 
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Posts: 638 04/24/2008 11:48 |
nickles are perfect for loosening and tightening the screw on my hardy bougle. I always carry one in my fishing bag or vest.
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Posts: 2616 04/24/2008 12:17 |
Ken M 44 wrote:
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Posts: 826 04/24/2008 12:33 |
Picking up coins is metaphorical to rising trout.
Young kids are lower to the ground and full of energy. They gleefully pick up every coin with zest, like nursery trout splashing for dry flies. On the other hand, old folks ponder these things. My knees hurt. If I bend over to get the coin will I be able to rise back up to full stature. Will somebody think me frugal or desperate. Is the value of the coin worth the energy expended. Just like a bunch of big, fat trout lying on the bottom of the river. The older you get the less likely you are to reach for a coin or a dry fly. |
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Posts: 2400 04/24/2008 12:34 Moderatus Britannicus |
2 hours already - must be siesta time
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Posts: 273 04/24/2008 13:12 |
Good post Andy and replies too. And thank you BHB for a reminder of Poor Richard's wisdom. I'll have to look up the "Two hat cure for the
hangover" (I think it was in the Almanac...) and post it on the next single malt redux.
Frankly I find the penny virtually useless. I always seem to be one short of correct change, which means the clerk will just give me more of them, and I'm pretty sure I wore out my last pair of penny loafers some time ago. I would love to see the half-dollar in wider circulation, and we are LONG overdue for a useful $1 coin. I mean really----quarter-sized Susan B. Anthony or Sakajawea (sp?)---give me a break! Just look up North to our Canadian friends; not only a loonie but a twonie to go with it! Right-sized, clearly differentiated from other coinage, and widely accepted by both the public and all coin operated machines. I mean really, how hard can this be? OK, just my opinion and for the purposes of this thread not my 2 cents |
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Posts: 132 04/25/2008 09:06 |
Here's another way to look at it. If it took you about two seconds to pick up that penny, you're working for about $18/hr. Nickles...$90/hr. Then
the big bucks start at quarters...$450/hr. I still fondly remember the day many years ago that I found $50 on the floor of a men's room.
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Posts: 98 04/25/2008 09:44 |
here in canada if we didn't have the penny our govt's would just increase sales taxes and gst taxes in 5% increments every time they needed extra cash
instead of 1 or 2. that's the only reason to keep the penny.
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Posts: 576 04/25/2008 12:20 |
Thank you BHB for more lovely prose. It makes me laugh
The trout takes the fly, the line tightens and it's like I was blind, but now I
see.
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Posts: 2667 04/25/2008 20:49 |
BlackHillsBill wrote: OK Bill, consider me nudged. I just made it back to our lovely Black Hills after a week's fishing and socializing in Colorado. And are you sitting down,
my friend? While I took one of my 8040's along, I never even removed it from its tube. Nah, instead I had a fling with my new PHY Perfectionist clone.
Blasphemy? Well, perhaps. But I like your word better...diversification.
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Posts: 312 04/29/2008 18:51 |
Before we get rid of it, we first need to learn how to spell "nickel"......
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Posts: 457 04/30/2008 10:10 |
wb4tjh wrote: Or use a dictionary: From Merriam-Webster's:
Both spellings are correct and acceptable.
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Posts: 146 05/01/2008 00:44 |
I pick up all coins I see on the g round. I believe in prosperity of every kind and want to keep the energy flowing.
However, those stupid pennies have to go. |
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