Comment by firefax
8 hours ago
>I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.
Let's do it like Japan does, only one type of currency. And that currency will be the penny. One dollar note? No buddy... that's a one hundred cent note now.
We may or may not continue to mint one dollar coins (previously one cent coins), but everything will make... cents.
(I guess this style of humor is better delivered verbally?)
JPY has the benefit that people probably don't try to use floating point numbers for currency. (ignoring the central joke of your comment)
The sen still exists. There's even a few 50 sen coins still floating around.