OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
> One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned 
> for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there 
> would be somewhere to put dollar coins in a register and they would be 
> used more often. 

Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, 
resp.).

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