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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. |