Those are the legally suggested rules, but not every company exactly follows them; I recall hearing that one supermarket chain always rounds downward at purchase time, but rounds up if you return the product for some reason - a nice gesture.
Those are the legally suggested rules, but not every company exactly follows them; I recall hearing that one supermarket chain always rounds downward at purchase time, but rounds up if you return the product for some reason - a nice gesture.
Turns out, the smaller coins are actually worth $2, and I must have given her $12-$20 worth of tips for a cup of coffee.
Stores still do pricing in exact numbers of cents and only round the final result, which means the price you end up paying with plastic is slightly different than what you'd pay with cash.
Was in the US last month and the only time I saw a $1 coin was when we used a machine to change a dollar bill into a $1 coin to use in an adjacent ticket machine!
Finnish one and two cent coins are minted in small batches which go straight to collectors. You never see them in circulation.