No more pennies for your thoughs in Canada

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I have never understood british coins. You can have a handful of them, and you can't even buy a coke!

If the situation in Canada is similar, I say get rid of 'em! We're doing the same here, and removing our lowest coin(0,5nok), so that the lowest coin will be worth around 18 us cents. Well, at least you can use those on coffee machines....

Devaluation, dear boy. There was a time when one silver penny would have bought the whole of Norway, but back then Cnut was King so we owned it anyway.

Ahem.

No, it makes a certain amount of sense - in developed countries overall we should all either agree to lop a zero off or started minting coins in larger denominations.

Having said that, if you want to take my copper (copper plated steel) pennies you will have to pry them from my cold, dead, Saxon hands.