that awful trump wants to do away pennies

I have a big bag of pennies in my game box left over from poker night.

The good old days.

Yes, I remember those, I have a few somewhere in my old coin collection. Not really a collection, just a metal tin that I’ve been putting odd coins in since I was a kid in the late 1960’s.

I never really noticed when pennies when the way of the Dodo in Canada. I do remember at a certain point you couldn't bring pennies to the bank and get money for them. Made a lot of "penny hoarders" plenty mad!

I was more concerned when they deleted the $1 bill!!

Then they eliminated the two dollar bill...now we got loonies & twonnies!! Wears a hole in yer britches!

I went on a Rugby tour to England/Wales in '86. They had switched to a coin for the Pound. It was a small diameter but really thick so you could pretty much tell what it was when putting your hand in your pocket. Great idea! We of course, made our 2 dollar coin pretty much the same size as the one dollar coin. Easy to tell the diff when you look at them, not so much in the pocket.

I liked those £1 coins. When I lived in the UK in ‘88-‘90 it would buy a pint of beer in the pub. Wonder what it costs now in England for a pint?