Sir, – Instead of the Central Bank telling people to use 1 cent coins ("Central Banks seeks return of millions of copper coins", December 9th), why not tell shops to stop displaying 99 cent prices, thereby preventing a shortage of 1 cent coins from occurring in the first place? And why do shopkeepers persist with 99 cent prices? Is it laziness or a lack of imagination, or because they have a low opinion of their customers' intelligence? –Yours, etc,
JASON FITZHARRIS,
Swords,
Co Dublin.