A+New+Coin

"When I was your age..."

Don't you just love stories that start like that. Well this is a good one...

...we used to have two different coins that we don't use anymore. They were the one cent and two cent coins. They were little and brown (made of copper) and you used to get heaps of them for change when you went shopping. You know how things cost $3.99 now, well you would actually get change from $4.00!

Anyway they were soon outdated and now we don't use them as currency anymore *sob*. [|Wikipedia on the 1 cent coin] [|Wikipedia on the 2 cent coin]

Today you are going to go one step further than the one cent coin, you are going to invent a coin worth one thousandth of a dollar.

When naming your coin you need to consider the fact that the CENTs are called CENTs because they are one hundredth of a dollar. (cent or centum meaning hundred in Latin - check the dictionary on the Mac)

You need to tell me how many of your coins the following would cost.

A Mars bar

A bag of your favourite chips

A chocolate milk

and three other things you could buy from the tuck shop.