Mint Dropping The Nickel?

The speculation of a new $5 coin leads to more questions:
What size would it be ?
What composition would it be ? Bi-metallic or solid ?

There will be no more sales tax

also talk (a while back) of dropping 25c and introducing 20c and 50c (everything in 10s)

"also talk (a while back) of dropping 25c and introducing 20c and 50c (everything in 10s)"

Oh boy, metric money, here we are in the new millennium and I still convert km to miles when travelling and kg to lbs when shopping etc...

I'm tempted to keep track of my spending over the next month or so and see what effect, if any removing the nickle would have.
My best guess right now....
Absolutely Zero/Nada/Nuttin lol
I only spend about 2 or 3 hundred a month in cash, most of that in the pub.
I almost always round my bill off to the nearest 10 dollar amount after a 15% to 20% tip.....But that's because I'm a good tipper when I'm drinking.
The only other time I use cash is on the odd occasion when I'm out driving around and I want some gum or a chocolate bar,
I only do that every other month or so.
99% of my spending is done on debit or credit cards.
I used to pay cash for gas all the time but now that BC has the prepay law I very rarely go in the store.
It helped cut down on my junk food intake
I vote to give the nickle the BOOT!
I think it and the penny should still be issued every year in proof and specimen collector sets.

about 4 years

i really doubt dime will get bigger any time soon. if anything, all the other coins may become smaller to reduce cost.

It was already stated years ago, that the foonie would be the "Bizzarro Toonie" In other words, a bimetallic golden ring around a silver center. (Which was why I think it should be called a "five golden rings" since it would be a golden ring around a silver center, and the coin would be worth $5.

How is Canada doing without their pennies so far, anyway? Any and all Canadians feel free to answer that one.




Ah, so Canada is going to possibly get their halves back into circulation, get rid of their quarters and introduce a fifth just as I said we U.S.ians should do. But since the Canadian half is the same size as the loonie, wouldn't the new halves need to be made bigger or smaller than the toonie, and/or proposed foonie?

What could really be done, within both the U.S. and Canada, is, eliminate the penny (in the U.S.) nickel AND dime, and round to the nearest quarter, and set up five coin slot tills COINS: $25c, 50c, $1, $2, $5, and make our quarters the size of pennies (and still copper in color, like pennies as quarters are about the smallest denomination with the power to purchase some things, they would make good "pennies" of the 21st century), our halves the size of nickels, $1 coins the size of quarters, and make both, Canadian and U.S. $2 coins the size of the dollar coin, and the $5 coin the size of the Canadian $2 coin, to make our coinange lighter and more pleasurible to carry around, and still have five coin denominations in circulation instead of eight, and issue $200, $500, and possibly $1,000 bills and do the bill slots, BILLS: $10, $20, $50, $100 $200 and put $500 and $1,000 bills in a safe, but keep one or two $500 bills out in the till under the $200 bills, in case you need to make a large change transaction with a $1,000 bill.

THAT would make things very simple.