On 28/12/2011 05:31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:49 pm,
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 23:49, Peter T. Daniels wrote:





On Dec 27, 6:21 pm,
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 22:57, Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:00:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:
SEPTA, unlike NYC, accepts dollar bills on its buses. I don't know
why NYC's fareboxes aren't set up to handle that.

The US could really, really do with $1, $2 and $5 coins for this sort of
purpose. I genuinely do not understand why people are so resistant.

Neil

They do have one-dollar coins and they and TVMs in New York City
regularly dispense them as change.

The interesting thing is that they have minted a few different series to
ease use since the late 1970s, when the Susan B. Anthony dollar replaced
the Eisenhower dollars, which were almost as big as a five-pound coin.

They were the size silver dollars had been for generations.

I didn't quite understand you.-

The Susie B's were made in a much smaller, but thick and many-sided,
size so as to make them more convenient for the pocket. (It didn't
help.)

The many sides were within the frame of the coin itself, and not on the
edges. Perhaps, had they decided to make the SBA several-sided, we might
not be having this conversation.