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by black6 492 days ago
Why would we need more nickels? Transactions will end up being rounded to the nearest nickel, which will end up being a dime on one side or a nickel on the other as the smallest necessary coin. Seems like it all evens out.
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Both will be used more, the issue with the nickel is that it costs around 14ยข to make one.
I'd have to see a mathematical proof as to why nickels or dimes would be used more, I don't actually think that's the case.
The only logical argument I can imagine is that people are using stacks of 5 pennies now routinely instead of nickels. But personally I never see that happening.