There are European countries that have no 1 and 2c coins (Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Finland). The prices are the same, when you buy something the sum is simply rounded up to the next 5 cents.
Works fine.
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Here in NL the amount gets rounded to the nearest multiple of five, so for 1.92 you have to pay 1.90 in cash and 1.93 will become 1.95. This so on average you are not overpaying. Digital payments are always exact.
croatian here, we recently, in january of this year, switched to euro. im still mindblown by how much 1 cent is (like, 7.5 times more than 1 lipa was). and since i already carry 10 times more coins now then when i did when we used kunas, i really dont mind the 1 and 2 cent coins. in fact, a lot of things here cost x.x3 or x.x7 โฌ, so its quite convenient to have some cents in your wallet
Damn that's interesting. In Germany you can maybe get something for 10 cent somewhere, but everything else is at least 20 or 50 cent ^^
Children in elementary schools use coins as an example to learn calculating. They need the 1 cent coins. Is nobody here thinking about the children?
Well, they sure can learn with something else.
In Canada we've removed them and I'm just left wondering why we have 5 and 10 cent pieces now. They're also absolutely useless.
I am all for it. Though here in Germany it would probably give quite a number of people a heart attack not being able to pay an exact amount to the cent.
I feel called out.
No, seriously. Last season I bought some plums from my Turkish greengrocer, he put them on the scales which said 1.01 Euro which he commented with "one Euro". I gave him 1.01 Euro, and got a "can you believe those Almans" look.
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As a swiss person, I get surprised every time the price doesn't automatically round to the next multiple of 5 cents when I'm in the EU. So yes, get rid of them.
As a swiss, you're used to find it the first prices in Europe, not you don't think about other economies.
There's a comment in here from someone whose country recently switched to euros, and many small items there cost under 10 cents. Rounding down would make them free, rounding up doubles their price...
The measure is reasonable if the local economy is suited - Belgium and the Netherlands have been rounding bills for a good while now, but it's not something that should be pushed from the European level.
Not that I said rounding bills - individual items are stille priced to the cent. When paying by card, you pay the exact total, but when paying cash it gets rounded to the nearest 5 cent.
What if they just stopped minting them
I'd be in fervor
I'm in the UK and we have so many 1 penny coins dating back to like the 70s, don't see why we need to continue minting them
Yep, I'm a big fan of the approach of getting rid of smaller coins and just rounding at the register. The Netherlands already do this and I don't think anyone there misses the small coins.
Denmark did it too. Worked fine.
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Good riddance! I never use them, collect them and bring them to one of the few banks that still accept coins.
I only use them when I empty my wallet in a self checkout to get rid of them
Hungary has in the recent past got rid of 1 and 2 HUF coins. Prices can still be XX99, only total transaction amounts have to be rounded according to official rounding laws, but only if in cash.
It works.
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I am in favour. But let's go ever further and get rid of cash entirely.
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In Romania we have Lei and Bani. Works the same as Euro and cents. We only have 10 and 50 bani coins. And generally we round to the nearest 50 bani.
We should have gotten rid of them some time ago.
I just put 1,2 and 5 cents in my kid's piggybank instead of carrying em around.
your poor kid xD
They would be even poorer if I wouldn't do it
fuck inflation
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