[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 9 Apr 2002 at 16:54, Ken Brown wrote: > > > But paper money is such a 20th-century thing! These days we're slowly > > drifting back to higher value metal coins (2 pounds out for a few years > > now, 5 pounds coming soon I think). Much more fun. Feels like real > > treasure! Less of the floppy stuff, we want our ecash to look like real > > cash. > > > > Ken > > > Yeah, but is that because people want it, or because the treasury > wants it? They've been trying to foist dollar coins on > US for years because they're cheaper (last forever and cost > about a dime to make vs. last about a year and cost maybe 3 cents > to make) but people hate them and don't use them.
Over here most people seem to prefer coins these days. Low-value notes have a cheap-and-nasty feel to them. They get all furry.
