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Proposal - New Jamaican currency
With more and more people throwing "red money" (10¢ and 25¢ pieces) away and fewer and fewer banks accepting coins, it might be best to do away with cents altogether.  This would not be any great thing, as our government seems already to have done away with sense altogether.

I propose a new currency, therefore:  The unit of currency would be the penny, and it would have no fractions nor multiples.  The Jamaican penny would be equivalent in value to what the Jamaican dollar is now.

The coinage and bills would be as follows:

The obverse of all coins would be the Jamaica Coat of Arms
One penny (1p) piece: made of aluminium, size and shape of current $1 piece. Image on reverse: the ackee image from the old 1¢ piece
Two pence (2p) piece: made of cupro-nickel, approximatetely same size as 1p piece, but round and milled.  Image on reverse: the crocodile image from the old 5¢ piece
Five pence (5p) piece: size, shape and material of current $5 piece.  Image on reverse: Lignum vitae image from the old 10¢ piece.
Ten pence (10p) piece:size, shape and material of current $10 piece.  Image on reverse: Blue Mahoe image from the old 20¢ piece
Twenty pence (20p) piece: size, shape and material of old 20¢ piece.  Image on reverse: Swallow-tailed hummingbird imae from the old 25¢ piece.
Fifty pence (50p) note: Portrait features Sam Sharpe.  Predominant colour, red
One hundred pence (100p) note: Portrait features George William Gordon.  Predominant colour, light purple
Two hundred pence (200p) note: Portrait features Paul Bogle  Predominant colour, green
Five hundred pence (500p) note: Portrait features Nanny of the Maroons. Predominant colour, beige
One thousand pence (1000p) note: Portrait features Marcus Garvey. Predominant colour, blue