Fivepenny

The plan called for is eliminating the five cent deposit fee on soda and beer bottles and substituting that with a three year, one cent per container fee, which would be paid by the beverage distributor. The fee would go towards a program to help ...

Two members of the Penney High School (Hamilton) boys basketball team were named All-KCI Conference first team, while two boys and one girl (Meredith Clevenger) were named to the All-KCI honorable mention squad, with the eight-school conference ...

How many five cent coins do you have in your wallet? Not many? You've thrown them into the car glove box, haven't you? Or they've fallen down the side of the couch? Your neglect towards the smallest piece of Australian currency has not been ignored.

Now, in remarks made almost exactly half a century after the introduction of decimal currency, the chief executive of the Royal Australian Mint, Ross MacDiarmid, has indicated five-cent coins could be on their last legs, too. “I think the five-cent ...

Royal Australian Mint officials said this week that the five cent coin 'is dying a natural death' and estimate it will no longer be produced in the next five to 10 years, according to ABC News. 'We've seen a halving of the demand for five cent pieces ...

Ross MacDiarmid, chief executive of the Royal Australian Mint, expects it to "die of its own accord" thanks to its uselessness without any need to officially withdraw it from circulation. On the basis of current demand for the five cent piece, our ...