10 yr. after decimalization of New Zealand currency 32 people (half female) individually selected brass discs to match the size of three withdrawn coins. In support of the value-size hypothesis a higher-valued coin was inaccurately recalled as larger and two basic coins were erroneously remembered as smaller than originals.
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