Lian's kookaburra has decided to explain the good and the bad of coins in Oz. The good is that there are no one cent pieces. When one buys something the cost is rounded up or down- 2 to 0 and 3 to 5. I still wonder why in Canada we bother with pennies. The two gold coins in the picture are the ones of value- the upper left is $2 with the $1 next to it. The next very large one is a pocket destroyer- $.50. They are a real nuisance as is the $.20 one on the bottom left. The other two are the .10 and .05. I now carry a small ziplock back to keep the coins together and to keep them from pocket destroying. Why the .50 one is so large (actually about the size of a toonie) is beyond me. And of course I am slow to think in terms of a .20 coin. Too many years with a quarter to work easily with a fifth (save for a fifth of booze).
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