It deals only in small, street-level, human-scale transactions: small change, loose change, and spare change…. What in fact the "real" exchange offices refuse to exchange, because the weight-to-value ratio makes it unprofitable for them. It’s exchange rate is always 1:1, that is, one coin exchanged for one coin, regardless of the face value, relegating the money to an "object", a souvenir, a collectible (a last sentiment in the face of inevitable replacement of European national currencies by the regional euro). Since the value is so minimized as to become symbolic, the real relative market values of the currencies will not be calculated, except for purposes of curiosity. For example, such phenomenon as the fact the the smallest coin in circulation in France (5 centimes) is four times less valuable than the smallest in circulation in Switzerland (also 5 centimes or "rapin"), etc…Focuses attention on an "inverted economy", in which the minimal, concrete exchange takes precedence over the attention placed in the media on buy-outs, take-overs, mergers, embezzlement, and other such abstract shifting of invisible or electronic money, and large incomprehensible sums.Creates a market of "bartering" for money, whereby the face value of the coin is supplanted by an exotic or aesthetic value for the "consumer" of money, a revival of virtually worthless coins by assigning them sentimental value.Negates the idea of a relative, floating economic power relationship between national economies, as defined by an inter-relationship of their currencies...by imposing a fixed, fair rate of exchange.Usurps the mythical powerful-sounding currencies like "Swiss Franc" or "dollar" by acknowledgement only of the name of the modest sub-denomination "centime" or "cent".

There are no questions of "convertibility": all coin currencies will be accepted.