Neil Williams writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

-Miles

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

-Miles

--
Twice, adv. Once too often.

On 27/12/2011 23:21, Miles Bader wrote:
Neil writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

-Miles

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

-Miles

I saw somebody on the Midland Metro try to pay their fare with a
unimetallic two-pound coin. I offered to take it off her hands for the
equivalent face value when the conductor wouldn't take it. I also ont
one in change at Wimbledon station once. Admittedly, however, it took a
bit of convincing for the ticket agent to give it to me as such.

I also occasionally run into one of the pre-1997 50-pence coins.

In message , at 23:31:43 on Tue, 27
Dec 2011, " remarked:
I saw somebody on the Midland Metro try to pay their fare with a
unimetallic two-pound coin. I offered to take it off her hands for the
equivalent face value when the conductor wouldn't take it. I also ont
one in change at Wimbledon station once.

It's quite unusual to get a £2 coin in manual change, but London
Underground ticket machines churn them out.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote

It's quite unusual to get a £2 coin in manual change, but London
Underground ticket machines churn them out.

Happens all the time in Lidl, Aldi, 99p stores - they seem to give
change on a "minimum number of coins" basis so the same for 20p and 10p

Since my launderette only takes £1 coins I occasionally have to ask for
4 x £1 rather than 2 x £2


--
Mike D

On Dec 27, 6:21*pm, Miles Bader wrote:
Neil Williams writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with the
giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my 1993 visit
to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so that they could
return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in circulation ($5, $10,
$20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

On 27/12/2011 23:52, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 27, 6:21 pm, Miles wrote:
Neil writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with the
giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my 1993 visit
to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so that they could
return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in circulation ($5, $10,
$20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

I think that two-dollar bills would be easy enough to come by as they
are in general circulation. Just go to a bank and ask for a few.

On Dec 27, 7:51*pm, "
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 23:52, Peter T. Daniels wrote:





On Dec 27, 6:21 pm, Miles *wrote:
Neil *writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with the
giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my 1993 visit
to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so that they could
return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in circulation ($5, $10,
$20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

I think that two-dollar bills would be easy enough to come by as they
are in general circulation. Just go to a bank and ask for a few.-

Have you ever seen one?

Have you ever seen a cash register till with a slot for them?

Has the store cashier ever seen one?

I'm going to the bank tomorrow -- I'll try to remember to ask if they
have any on hand.

(Part of their unpopularity was said to have to do with their
association -- generations ago -- with two-dollar whores and two-
dollar bets at the track, where apparently you were supposed to tear
off a corner for luck, which would have taken them out of circulation
long before what would have been their natural lifespan, about 18
months, if they were in regular usage.)

On 28/12/2011 05:34, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:51 pm,
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 23:52, Peter T. Daniels wrote:





On Dec 27, 6:21 pm, Miles wrote:
Neil writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with the
giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my 1993 visit
to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so that they could
return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in circulation ($5, $10,
$20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while back:
a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't take it
(though they're technically still legal tender), so I bought off her
for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

I think that two-dollar bills would be easy enough to come by as they
are in general circulation. Just go to a bank and ask for a few.-

Have you ever seen one?

Yes. I have a couple of them, as a matter of fact.

Have you ever seen a cash register till with a slot for them?

Nope.

Has the store cashier ever seen one?


Unlikely. I wouldn't be surprised of a couple of them even try to ring
the police on grounds that the customer is trying to pass false currency

I'm going to the bank tomorrow -- I'll try to remember to ask if they
have any on hand.

They should do. Or they might ask you to come back in a couple of days.

On 12/28/2011 12:34 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:51 pm,
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 23:52, Peter T. Daniels wrote:





On Dec 27, 6:21 pm, Miles wrote:
Neil writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good
enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with
the giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my
1993 visit to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so
that they could return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in
circulation ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while
back: a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't
take it (though they're technically still legal tender), so I
bought off her for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

I think that two-dollar bills would be easy enough to come by as
they are in general circulation. Just go to a bank and ask for a
few.-

Have you ever seen one?

Have you ever seen a cash register till with a slot for them?

Has the store cashier ever seen one?

I'm going to the bank tomorrow -- I'll try to remember to ask if
they have any on hand.

(Part of their unpopularity was said to have to do with their
association -- generations ago -- with two-dollar whores and two-
dollar bets at the track, where apparently you were supposed to tear
off a corner for luck, which would have taken them out of
circulation long before what would have been their natural lifespan,
about 18 months, if they were in regular usage.)

My understanding is they're still used in strip joints, actually.
They're sometimes given in change because they're preferred in the sniff
row to singles.

I always think about getting a bunch for the novelty, but never really
feel like going to the bank anymore. And plus it sounds like they're
rare enough that people will argue with you.

On 28/12/2011 16:44, Bolwerk wrote:
On 12/28/2011 12:34 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:51 pm,
wrote:
On 27/12/2011 23:52, Peter T. Daniels wrote:





On Dec 27, 6:21 pm, Miles wrote:
Neil writes:
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.

"If dollar bills were good enough for Jesus, they're good
enough for me!"

It must mean something that the $1 bill was not redesigned with
the giant portrait when all(? I haven't seen a $2 bill since my
1993 visit to Monticello -- where the admission fee was $8 so
that they could return Jeffersons in change) the other bills in
circulation ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100) were.

p.s. By random luck, I got a ¥100 paper note in a store a while
back: a customer was trying to use it, and the store wouldn't
take it (though they're technically still legal tender), so I
bought off her for a ¥100 coin... :]

I did that with a $2 bill once in eastern Ohio at a gas station
convenience store.

I think that two-dollar bills would be easy enough to come by as
they are in general circulation. Just go to a bank and ask for a
few.-

Have you ever seen one?

Have you ever seen a cash register till with a slot for them?

Has the store cashier ever seen one?

I'm going to the bank tomorrow -- I'll try to remember to ask if
they have any on hand.

(Part of their unpopularity was said to have to do with their
association -- generations ago -- with two-dollar whores and two-
dollar bets at the track, where apparently you were supposed to tear
off a corner for luck, which would have taken them out of
circulation long before what would have been their natural lifespan,
about 18 months, if they were in regular usage.)

My understanding is they're still used in strip joints, actually.
They're sometimes given in change because they're preferred in the sniff
row to singles.

I always think about getting a bunch for the novelty, but never really
feel like going to the bank anymore. And plus it sounds like they're
rare enough that people will argue with you.


Oh, I can almost guarantee that they would argue with you.