The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 9, March 4, 2007, Article 28

ABOLISH THE DIME AS WELL

Responding to a Canadian newsletter writer, last week Dick Johnson
wrote: "Are you implying we are a backward country, Sask Baby?
We'll show you! We are going to stop minting 2-cent, 3-cent and 20-cent
coins! Oh! Wait a minute. We have done that already."

Henk Groenendijk writes: "You do not mention the half cent which was
last minted in 1857. Looking at the US consumer price index which was 27
in 1860 (reference 1967 = 100) and 592.5 in January 2007, a half cent in
1857 compares with 11 cents in today's money. So why only abolish the
penny and nickel - the dime can be abolished as well!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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