• What are the advantages of this system?
  
  
  
• Do the coins and notes allow for more combinations than the Japanese or U.S. systems?
  
  
  
• What disadvantages are there to the system below?
  
  

  Notes	Coins
  1024	64
  528	32
  256	16
  128	8
  	4
  	2
  	1

Now, imagine that you have just discovered a country. As its founder and ruler, you have to develop a system of currency.

• How many coins and notes will there be in your currency system?
  
  
  
  
  
• What values will they have?
  
  
  
  
  
• What will you call your new money?
  
  
  
  
  
• What symbol will you use to describe it?
  
  Coins:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Notes:
  
  
  
  
  
• What is the name of your currency, and what is its symbol?

  
  
  

• Explain why the values of the coins and notes you chose make a good system of currency.