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.