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by TheBicPen 295 days ago
The problem with leaving both dimes and quarters is that you'd need dimes for any price that's a multiple of 10c but not 50c. Getting rid of dimes would make it so that every price payable with cash is payable entirely in quarters.
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What do you think about Dcarrier's idea [above comment response] about nixxing the ten-cent-piece, and then reducing the size of a nickel to the current-dime-size?

I liked it.