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Jun 18, 2013 at 11:11 comment added Mark Mayo It was a Swedish practice which Aus and NZ adopted, and they were the ones to coin (sorry) the phrase "Swedish rounding" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_rounding)
Jun 18, 2013 at 9:47 comment added gerrit Never heard the phrase Swedish rounding before. Is there anything Swedish about it?
Jun 18, 2013 at 8:30 comment added ratchet freak the reason they take up 80% of new coins is that they don't get used as payment; only as change, which means that stores need to keep ordering rolls of 1 and 2 cent coins, after which they disappear from circulation
Jun 18, 2013 at 0:13 history answered Mark Mayo CC BY-SA 3.0