If you have 25 pennies in your pocket, you have 25
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If you take those 25 pennies to the bank and ask the teller to give you a quarter, you now have 1 coin totaling 25 cents.
The value is the same, it is just that you CONSOLIDATED the value into one coin rather than 25 separate coins.
This is the concept of the REVERSE SPLIT in layman's terms................