I've read that after Commodus was assassinated, Rome tired to scrub his existence from history. I don't know why I'm mentioning this; it's completely unrelated.
Maybe quarters also go (perhaps with half-dollars becoming more common, which, alongside dimes and dollars, would give the same first-three-steps scale as penny/nickel/dime, just shifted a decimal place.)
The current half dollar is a rejected monster. Nickels should be too.
Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.
Yes, and reduce the size of new_half_dollar to current_quarter; new_quarter to current_nickel; dime remains same size. Nix nickels and pennies. Dollars become smaller than current_half_dollar, but larger than current_quarter.
Fortunately inflation is so high that these coins won't be worth much for very long. Like their obverse patron, won't be around forever.
¡¡ Happy 80th/250th !!
I've got my drill press ready, for a political art project.
Is this supposed to be for a coin or a tombstone?
Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.