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We've discussed the possibility of killing off the US penny before, as well as Canada's plans to actually put an end to its penny. Some folks really hate these small denomination coins, but really large denominations aren't too popular, either. Here are just a few links on some money that won't see circulation. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
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Filed Under: coins, currency, denominations, mint, pengo, penny, platinum


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    jameshogg (profile), 8 Jan 2013 @ 5:10pm

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    Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2013 @ 5:26pm

    this is really just the slow death of cash

    after pennies and nickels, we'll just get rid of all cash and go completely digital, so the govt can track all transactions and illegal transactions will have to go with bitcoin or some other sketchy money system....

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      Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2013 @ 5:43pm

      Re: this is really just the slow death of cash

      That would work out real well for those living on the street.

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        Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2013 @ 11:33pm

        Re: Re: this is really just the slow death of cash

        TechCrunch: Bitcoin, Ven and the end of currency
        Not really, since virtual currencies are backed up by whatever the official local currency there is. That is the beauty of it, in theory a street beggar could beg online and receive money from anyone in the world.

        Also you have the Canadian MintChip which if hacked could produce infinity monies for anyone.

        And then you have the social currency called Ven which appeared to solve one problem, people around the world dealt with different currencies and rules and it was a problem for doing actual business so they invented a virtual currency that could be accepted anywhere and would have one value and the same rules for everyone. Bitcoin also serve that purpose.

        This is true globalization now, where people are starting to create their own infra-structure because they have needs, old banks(incumbents) could be left behind in the new economy, now that would be ironic.

        Governments could be left without much control over anything, this is exactly why Canada jumped into the bandwagon and launched their own, the US may be surprised to find out that the dollar could become just a local currency instead of a global one, that would be bad for political leverage to lose control over money.

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          Anonymous Coward, 9 Jan 2013 @ 4:52am

          Re: Re: Re: this is really just the slow death of cash

          "in theory a street beggar could beg online and receive money from anyone in the world."

          You may have overlooked something here.

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    silverscarcat (profile), 8 Jan 2013 @ 6:09pm

    Wait!

    Can you still get your hands on that Hungarian note?

    I wanna get one and pretend I'm rich to everyone. XP

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    Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2013 @ 6:12pm

    When the came for the pennies, I didn't speak up.

    You already know the rest. The Federal Reserve will be the death of the dollar.

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    Beta (profile), 8 Jan 2013 @ 7:30pm

    cosmological inflation

    "Hungary once produced currency with a denomination of 100 million billion Pengos. That's 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengos."

    Umm... Did 100000% inflation occur between the times those two sentences were written?

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    Michael, 9 Jan 2013 @ 5:09am

    $1 Trillion Coin

    They should make it exactly the same size as a subway token.

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