Should bronze money be scrapped?

I wish could get rid of 1 and 2ps
They just get lost
Always turn manky
And aren't worth even bothing about.

If you looked for all the 1ps you had and bagged them up it might take you 15 mins.if you spent that time working you'd earn more, even in moon wage!

Pointless.
 
Skorpion said:
Still need coins for vending machines, fruit machines, jukeboxes etc and small purchases.
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True about fruit machines. Then again modern fruit machines don't accept 1p or 2p, so my OP remains :-) I hate being loaded down with copper, to the point that us fruity players refer to it as "shrapnel" :D

As for the rest of this thread - I'm glad that nobody has mentioned cheques.
 
I agree scrapping coppers is a good idea. Keep cash though, got to pay the kebab vans and ice cream man somehow (that seems to be the only place I use cash now!)
 
Seen quite a few shops going 'cashless' recently so take-up is improving. I think cash will always be king until there is a reliable way to transfer money between individuals for private transactions. Maybe if they extended contactless to work seamlessly between personal bank accounts...
 
Why the hell would you want a 5 pound coin instead of the infinitly more practicle note?

I'd rather see the 1 pound become a note
 
I think that the only legal way to pay should be through Facebook so it can track every transaction made by everyone. That information would never be used for anything other than what's good for us.

Scrapping 1p and 2p coins I agree with. They're probably worth less than the 0.5p coin was when it was scrapped. The 1p certainly is. 5p will do as the smallest value coin. I don't see any need to make it into a bronze coin. What would be the point of that? Also...£5 coin. Why? How is it better than a £5 note? As for £50 notes, I don't see any point in making them more common. I don't care if they do become more common, but I don't see any point to making it so.

I use card for almost everything, but I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to make every purchase part of the ever-growing amount of routine blanket surveillance.
 
Sweden has dumped it's "pence" a long time back.
So effectively the smallest coin they have is a 10p/1kr.

Ive been here 5 years now and I still get excited seeing Banknotes. I had a 100kr in my phone case for emergencies and I finally took it out cos I can't think of a single situation where I'd actually use it.. lol
 
Efour said:
Sweden has dumped it's "pence" a long time back.
So effectively the smallest coin they have is a 10p/1kr.

Ive been here 5 years now and I still get excited seeing Banknotes. I had a 100kr in my phone case for emergencies and I finally took it out cos I can't think of a single situation where I'd actually use it.. lol
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Bus/cab fare outside of a city?
 
I think it was George Osbourne who tried to scrap the 1p and 2p coins, but there was some reason why he couldn't

also, please just get rid of cash already! car parking machines do my head in (not the ones where you can pay with an app)
 
deuse said:
I do. Money talks, BS(credit card) walks :)
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I almost exclusively use contactless debit cards in the UK and Europe. US is a slightly different story, especially when eating out in some restaurants or when tipping. I'd be up for dropping cash in its entirety. I bet the criminal underworld would initially balk at that idea!
 
It's important to get rid of all cash ASAP so that banks, governments and advertisers can track and skim everything the economic serfs do. The data state needs your info even more than Google.

Vote for Christmas, turkeys, you know you like stuffing! Having said that, coppers are next to worthless apart from for propping up wonky tables; I'm not manning the barricades on their behalf even though rounding up is an 'invisible' way of squeezing more out of us.
 
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