Reply To: Penniless

“Regarding picking up a penny from the ground, one of my teachers once mentioned that by picking it up you show Hashem that you value money, so he may send you more. (Hopefully the real stuff.)”

-I heard something of the sort too, is there something to it? Sort of like not throwing away the food crumbs to show you value food?

“But I think it’s cheaper to make a bill than coin. For a coin you need metal-paper is cheaper. Not sure. I think so.”

The point is that in the long run coins stay usable practically forever. But to replace the dollar bill with a coin is senseless since coins weigh a lot and the whole reason they went from coins to bills was because it is easier to carry. So what they proposed is going backwards kind of like the NYC plastic bag ban, going back to paper