Aug wrote --

> We, in Canada, did away with the penny a long time ago. It's  
> also quite astonishing that the USA still has $1 bills,  
> original design, easy to counterfeit.

  They would cost more to counterfeit (plates, paper, ink, etc) than they
are worth.
  Years ago the city passed an ordinance all bicycles had to be registered
and have a plate that cost $1.  But processing and paperwork, etc cost the
city $2 for each one.  I never got one, thus, in my mind, I was saving the
city a dollar.  :)
  The US once had a $1,000 bill, along with a $500 bill.  Now the largest
is a hundred.  Anything larger than that is between banks only and unusable
otherwise.
  Joe   
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