It’s strange now to think that I was around - when here in Australia, we had little brown 1 and 2 cent coins. I can’t rememeber exactly when they were removed from circulation (Anyone?) - but I do remember my indignation. As a boy, I used to buy a mixed bag of 1c lollies from the corner shop. How was this going to be possible when there weren’t any 1 cents??? Ok, it was probably rare that I would actually buy less than 20c worth.. but it seemed like I needed to be able to buy 1 lollie if I so chose.

Also, it seemed to me, like an admition that our money has becoming worthless.

Anyway, I was pondering the other day. I realised that I have now beome scornful of our 5c pieces. In fact, I consider it a personal victory everytime I am able to string a few of these togther to pay for something. It annoys me to no end that I can’t use these to pay for road tolls or parking meters.

I kinda wonder if these will ever be on the way out too? I guess inflation and a decreasing value of currencyare inevitable…