How much was a ticket for the underground in the 60s?
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Years ago when the Canadian dollar was trading in the region of 70-75
US cents, the finance chair of our (apartment) strata corporation
began separating out Yankee quarters from the cash inserted in the
complex's laundry machines.
She'd amassed a considerable number of 25-cent pieces (replacing the
value of submitted Ammurican quarters with equivalent Canadian two-bit
pieces so the corporation's books balanced).
She knew I was about to visit Seattle, and asked if I'd cart the loot
across the line and Make A Profit by exchanging the US quarters for
Green Back paper.
Any bank I approached, refused to accept the large numbers of coins as
I wasn't/we weren't a customer.
I finally found one that accepted the metal, although at a "discount"
to handle the loose change... so I ended up basically with paper/bills
worth the same "face value" of the original mass of coins in Canadian
dollars anyway.
The problem was that I could barely pick up the money and had to put
it in a large rucksack to get it there. I got over £80 even with the
ripoff.
But it would require about 9 million people to do something similar to
add up to the three quarters of a (presumably American) billion
suggested. I am not one of them any more.
Next time, roll them and take them to a grocery store. .
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