Sure... especially if their cash register used a rounding function to the nearest quarter (which it probably would for convenience). You forget that we only had coins that were a portion of a cent.

>Do you really think that merchants will round $1.12 or even $1.01 to $1.00? $1.25 will be more likely...
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>>It would all even out as it currently does with pennies. Most people forget that $.50 with 7 percent tax is $.535 not $.54