Counting self control

Perhaps the exchange rate is what threw us off:

Originally posted by Pie [#53]
1 quarter, two dimes, a nickel, two pennies and a canadian penny.

It seems that this was posted from a US location. The sum of the specified change, after converting the Canadian penny, would come to US $ 0.529. The next poster was subconsciously influenced to round it up to 53.

Let's see now, where were we, oh yes ... 4o4!