Comments on: BEP Prints 649.6 Million U.S. Notes Worth $13.8 Billion in February https://www.coinnews.net/2008/03/06/bep-prints-649600000-us-notes-worth-138b-in-february-3971/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Sun, 08 May 2011 04:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: JayKay https://www.coinnews.net/2008/03/06/bep-prints-649600000-us-notes-worth-138b-in-february-3971/#comment-6971 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:57:58 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/2008/03/06/bep-prints-649600000-us-notes-worth-138b-in-february-3971/#comment-6971 That means that roughly half the notes printed are $1 bills that wear out in an average of 18 months or so. Does this make ANY economic or practical sense?

Get rid of the one, print more twos, reintroduce the half-dollar, and let’s use those billions of $1 coins that the Mint keeps churning out. Canada did it, the EU did it, England did it, Australia did it …

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