No More Coppers.

kneemos · 19-10-2015 10:37AM #1

Hear on the wireless that we're no longer dealing pennies and two cents from Wednesday week.Time to empty them jars.
Good riddance I say.Will you be sorry to see them go?

Tipsy McSwagger · 19-10-2015 10:39AM

Nope I usually tell the cashier just to keep them anyway.

gandalf · 19-10-2015 10:39AM

Jaysus I am sure you gave a few guards and nurses a heart attack with that headline

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-10-2015 10:39AM

To be honest, it doesn't bother me one way or the other. It's only coppers, a few cents here or there, no big deal either way.

jamesbere · 19-10-2015 10:40AM

You got my hopes up there, taught this was about copper face jacks

valoren · 19-10-2015 10:40AM

No more feeling awkward as you wait for your 1c change back.

diomed · 19-10-2015 10:43AM

We're getting above ourselves.

Mint Sauce · 19-10-2015 10:44AM

1s and 2s usally go in the poor box anyway. Although did agree with a shop keeper last week, that it will be the poor boxes will now suffer as a result.

Kev W · 19-10-2015 10:44AM

diomed wrote: »

We're getting above ourselves.

How do you mean?

Knex* · 19-10-2015 10:44AM

They are a pain in the whole anyway. About time we just went with the rounded system.

CruelCoin · 19-10-2015 10:50AM

kneemos wrote: »

Will you be sorry to see them go?

Nope. I usually just **** them down the footwell of the car and leave it for the valet (They're never there when i get the car back anyway).

thelad95 · 19-10-2015 11:03AM

I doubt it's a straight purge, you'll probably still be able to use them for a while, no? I'd imagine banks will keep taking them as long as you have them in the bags

gramar · 19-10-2015 11:04AM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Nope. I usually just **** them down the footwell of the car and leave it for the valet (They're never there when i get the car back anyway).

Cruelcoin by name. Cruel to coins by nature.

gramar · 19-10-2015 11:05AM

thelad95 wrote: »

I doubt it's a straight purge, you'll probably still be able to use them for a while, no? I'd imagine banks will keep taking them as long as you have them in the bags

..or as long as they are still currency...

seamus · 19-10-2015 11:12AM

thelad95 wrote: »

I doubt it's a straight purge, you'll probably still be able to use them for a while, no? I'd imagine banks will keep taking them as long as you have them in the bags

Yes. They will continue to be valid currency indefinitely, meaning that you'll be able to use them to pay for your shopping and give your cash bags into the banks. Worth noting that retailers cannot refuse to accept 1c and 2c coins. (provided you're giving less than fifty of them).

The difference is that the central bank (and by extension the banks) will no longer be issuing them, so when a shopkeeper goes in for his bags of changes, there'll be no 1c and 2c coins available.

It's completely voluntary, shops don't have to do it, but they'll find it harder and harder to get their hands on 1c and 2c coins as time goes on, so they'll all eventually take part. The whole "rounding" thing will probably be gone in a couple of years and shops will just reprice everything.

I don't think the downfall of the 1c and 2c coins is actually their value, but their size. The 1c in particular is just pathetic, They're annoying to have floating around your pocket. The old 1p coin was equally worthless, but it at least had some substance to it.

Captain Chaos · 19-10-2015 11:17AM

seamus wrote: »

The whole "rounding" thing will probably be gone in a couple of years and shops will just reprice everything.
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I doubt that as in EU countries that have dropped the 1c and 2c coins a long time ago still have prices in .99 and have not changed to xx.95

The Backwards Man · 19-10-2015 11:21AM

I was in for the messages there and they came to €48.05 and I give the cashier five one cent coins to get rid of the bastards. She didn't say a word.

Kev W · 19-10-2015 11:23AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I was in for the messages there and they came to €48.05 and I give the cashier five one cent coins to get rid of the bastards. She didn't say a word.

Why would she?

kneemos · 19-10-2015 11:33AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I was in for the messages there and they came to €48.05 and I give the cashier five one cent coins to get rid of the bastards. She didn't say a word.

No manners.

hardCopy · 19-10-2015 11:34AM

seamus wrote: »

Yes. They will continue to be valid currency indefinitely, meaning that you'll be able to use them to pay for your shopping and give your cash bags into the banks. Worth noting that retailers cannot refuse to accept 1c and 2c coins. (provided you're giving less than fifty of them).

The difference is that the central bank (and by extension the banks) will no longer be issuing them, so when a shopkeeper goes in for his bags of changes, there'll be no 1c and 2c coins available.

It's completely voluntary, shops don't have to do it, but they'll find it harder and harder to get their hands on 1c and 2c coins as time goes on, so they'll all eventually take part. The whole "rounding" thing will probably be gone in a couple of years and shops will just reprice everything.

I don't think the downfall of the 1c and 2c coins is actually their value, but their size. The 1c in particular is just pathetic, They're annoying to have floating around your pocket. The old 1p coin was equally worthless, but it at least had some substance to it.

I think technically they could just decline your business if they didn't want the 1s and 2s. They only have an obligation to accept them if you're settling a debt. I'd say it's highly unlikely that any shop would though.

Sam Kade · 19-10-2015 11:38AM

gandalf wrote: »

Jaysus I am sure you gave a few guards and nurses a heart attack with that headline

Nurses? The first thing that came into my head was copper faced jacks you know the place where all the gobsh1tes say they met their partner.

Kev W · 19-10-2015 11:39AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Nurses? The first thing that came into my head was copper faced jacks you know the place where all the gobsh1tes say they met their partner.

Day Lewin · 19-10-2015 12:08PM

Main use is a sort of emergency fund: I collect them, filter them out of me purse and even pick them up off the ground. Store in jam-jars, of course. #tradition

Every now and again I take 'em down and count 'em out and turn them in at the bank for a couple of quid. Which goes to charity. But I've spent that extra fiver a couple of times when things were very tight.

And that's really all I ever do with the small coppers. I guess if you drilled the 1c coins you could use them as shirt buttons.

murpho999 · 19-10-2015 12:15PM

This all makes little cents to me.

donegaLroad · 19-10-2015 12:28PM

Hasn't it something to do with a charity called 'Change for Charity'? I heard a woman interviewed on the radio by the name of Smurfit, who is running the campaign.

The idea is that all the copper coins in Ireland would eventually be given to several charities... there is €35million in coppers in circulation in Ireland. It sounded like a good idea when I heard it.

Link here

murpho999 · 19-10-2015 12:38PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

Hasn't it something to do with a charity called 'Change for Charity'? I heard a woman interviewed on the radio by the name of Smurfit, who is running the campaign.

The idea is that all the copper coins in Ireland would eventually be given to several charities... there is €35million in coppers in circulation in Ireland. It sounded like a good idea when I heard it.

Link here

No, this has nothing to do with it. That is an appeal to get them but what was stated by the central bank today is nothing to do with that.

the groutch · 19-10-2015 12:48PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

Hasn't it something to do with a charity called 'Change for Charity'? I heard a woman interviewed on the radio by the name of Smurfit, who is running the campaign.

The idea is that all the copper coins in Ireland would eventually be given to several charities... there is €35million in coppers in circulation in Ireland. It sounded like a good idea when I heard it.
Link here

the money is just going to be forwarded on to other charities anyway.
this just adds another layer of bureaucracy, and another group of people to get their cut before it gets to helping those who actually need it.

handlemaster · 19-10-2015 12:51PM

Many a culchie will suffer a heart attack reading that thread title

Manic Moran · 19-10-2015 09:51PM

seamus wrote: »

I don't think the downfall of the 1c and 2c coins is actually their value, but their size. The 1c in particular is just pathetic, They're annoying to have floating around your pocket. The old 1p coin was equally worthless, but it at least had some substance to it.

I'm guessing the ha'penny predates you, then?

Tarzana2 · 19-10-2015 10:22PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hear on the wireless that we're no longer dealing pennies and two cents from Wednesday week.Time to empty them jars.
Good riddance I say.Will you be sorry to see them go?

Not a bit, think it's a great idea.

Buona Fortuna · 19-10-2015 10:27PM

Normally just fire mine into the Tesco self service and then stick any balance on a card.

No More Coppers.

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