What I'm questioning myself is If we would remove the 1 and 2 cent pieces Would they in the future increase in value because of them being rare.

I don't have them when paying with my Amex… And if I have too much of them, I'm kindly asking at the drinks store if I can throw them into their coin counter for payment when not many customers are there. If everything fails I wait until I have 11800 one-cent coins or a mix with 2 cent to pay that €118 every 10 years for ID card and passport. Which astonishingly is machine-payable with One and Two-Cent coins.

If you need ways to get rid of them:

• gift them to me, :D Or I'll PayPal it back to you.
• have a bank account at one of the old, expensive classical banks here in Germany, they usually take them. Don't have the cheapest account there. Take their kind of all-inclusive account model.
• Go to your nearest "Deutsche Bundesbank" and take your foreign coins and banknotes with you, they have to exchange it for you as long as all the money you bring is or was valid payment money somewhere.
• supermarket self-service machines
• Get to your nearest Späti (in Berlin) or kiosk store and ask the owner if he needs 1 Cent coins. Some give a small discount for you being the person, making sure they'll not get into trouble with missing 1 Cent coins. And some just trust that the thousands of coins you bring is roughly what you counted.

Avoid:

• Coinstar, 10+ % fee (or any other machine that's not a self-service cash register)
• rush hour on counting machines not fully used as self-service – ask the store when it's okay to come with so much money – those machines take some time to count your thousands of coins.

So in conclusion: Stores would want to do €,99 prices, because that's why you can steal a whole other Euro for every item the customer grabs. Doing .95 would change that unless everyone does it or is forced to do that. Because the lobby from these businesses is too big, we will not see the 1-cent and 2-cent pieces disappear. Milk business will complain that they can't afford selling at 4 cent less and all the others would just make everything + €1, so €1.99 becomes €2.95 and so on.

You shouldn't force the economy to change prices if you don't see them illegally changing prices. Because everything will be getting unnecessarily more expensive then. Enforced pricing should always be a price decrease.

The problem gets worse if you realize that the material value of the copper is greater than the coin value itself with 1 cent.

what? so if my bill is 1,96 euro i should pay 2 euro and the store will get the 4 cent? no way. that sounds not like much but its like per custumer per day lot. i even hate it that on gas stations there is a .cent. for example gas 1 euro 59,9 cent. what is this bullshit? just money making for the gas stations and oil companys.

Aren't there already some Euro-Countries that abolished 1 and 2 cent coins?

Doesn't make sense. You could just throw away all 1 and 2 cents for yourself and round everything up if you really wish not having to worry about them anymore. Problem solved :)

Yes, please remove 1, 2 and 5 cent coins. I'd argue for also removing 10 and 20 cent. How do you get rid of them? I feel ridiculous paying with them. So I just don't.