The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 7, February 18, 2007, Article 7

JAMAICA'S WORTHLESS COINS

Ian A. Marshall writes: "The recent discussions regarding those pesky
low value coins that are good for nothing more than making change has
reached a point of ridiculousness here in Jamaica where I am just
finishing a winter sojourn. There are 10c & 25c coins in circulation
here & with the current exchange rate to the $U.S. being around 67 to 1
they are not even much use as change. On any day I go out and walk a
little in the malls or the streets of New Kingston I find numerous mint
coins of both denominations strewn all over the ground. Even in a country
as poor as this, people simply throw them away often as soon as they get
them. I would hate to think of the amount of money the government wastes
here by making them & putting them in circulation."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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