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Comment on US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year

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Replace it with a 33 cent coin

I remembered there was some kind of "more efficient" coin system. I searched for "ternary coins" and "radix coins". Both are some crypto scams. Fun times.

Apparently I misremembered how it worked and it's actually 1, 5, 18 and 25 (or 29) for a 4 coin system: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf

Replace pennies, nickels, and dimes with a 12 1/2 cent coin. Eight to the dollar.

When I was a kid, a first-class stamp in the UK was 12.5 pence.

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