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.