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I was with you until you wanted to eliminate cash in favor of more coins. How is someone supposed to carry those in their wallet? Many use thin wallets or money clips for card/ID/cash. Plus if I'm leaving someone a tip, I'm sure they'd hate to have their pockets jingling while they serve food or valet. Cash is also a lot easier to count, flip through, harder to lose.

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The entire EU eurozone manages to do it. There's a 1 Euro note, but I've never seen it and as far as I know nobody uses it. Using 1 and 2 euro coins works great. I personaly just keep them in my pocket. I don't think jingling is a real problem.

Same goes for the UK and the pound. Nobody uses 1 pound notes.

Worth noting: the lack of tip culture in the EU as per the previous poster's example. A waiter being tipped 1$ coins each night would add up quickly.

It's common to tip a euro or two for your meal in Italy.

There have never been €1 notes, and £1 notes in England were withdrawn in 1988 in favour of the coin.

(£1 notes still exist in Scotland, but since 2001 are only issued in small numbers for collectors.)

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