Dear Michael and All, Here, in Australia, we no longer have 1 cent and two cent coins. They disappeared, without protest, a few years ago.
Our plastic notes, for $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 work very well and they are well accepted in the community, as are the $1 and $2 coins. I agree with you about renaming coins in the USA. I well remember reading comics from the USA � as a child � and wondering what was the difference between a nickel and a dime; I did not know which was which. It was a bit like references to a stick of butter in recipes from the USA. It was only recently that I found out that a stick of butter is about 250 grams. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-09-11 04.20, Michael G. Koerner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Subject: [USMA:22157] Re: Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 cents >> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:01:20 +0200 >> From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Your uncle needs a bill redesign too! > > Another evolutionary redesign of USA banknotes is due to begin sometime > next year. > > I would also go to Australian style plastic instead of the paper (Mexico > just announced that they will be replacing their paper banknotes with > plastic notes, starting with their $20 (20 Peso) notes). > > Further, I would drop our $1 and seldom used $2 notes in favor of coins. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:55 PM >> Subject: [USMA:22156] Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 cents >> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/09/coin.design.ap/index.html >>> >>> Uncle Sam planning new designs for 1,5,10 & 50 cent >>> coins. > > Whatever is decided upon for coin redesign, I would > a) drop the 1� and > b) change the words: "FIVE CENTS", "ONE DIME", "QUARTER DOLLAR", "HALF > DOLLAR" and "ONE DOLLAR" to read "5 CENTS", "10 CENTS", "25 CENTS", "50 > CENTS" and "1 DOLLAR", respectively. > > Unless one can read English _and_ knows what the words mean, our coins > are FIENDISHLY difficult to decipher (especially the Dime).
