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<374a9c3e.76110762@lugnet.com> <slrn7klkb6.3rr.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) You're willing to GIVE UP 8 cents on the dollar? Yeesh. Buy one of those machines and roll your own. (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So you're saying 2's rock too?? Or are you saying they're a bit hollow? Seriously, I have heard of other groups that want people to know what their economic impact is doing the same thing. Seems a neat idea. (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) At certain caving events I go to, the organizers, and most of the vendors stock up on $2 bills. The idea is that when you go out to a restaurant for dinner, or otherwise spend money in town, the townies see all these $2 bills and realize how (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I haven't been paying much attention to this topic, either here or in the news, so it's new to me. Works for me, though. We make a point of saving all our change and using it to pay for groceries (at a store that has one of the counting (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Am I the only one who likes the SueB? I never got them confused with quarters (but I was in the third grade) and still feel nostalgic when I get them in change at the post office vending machines. (...) And $2s rock too. They must have at (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't forget-- this is America where a) bigger is better, b) bigger is more valuable, and 3;) therefore a dollar coin must be the size of a coaster. I point to Suzy B as an attempt to the contrary to rest my case. Oh, and I forgot-- the land (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a better explanation than anything I thought up. It especially makes sense, if the major rationale for a new dollar coin is for it to be used in vending machines. And if the size limit for vending machines is the 26.5mm quarter. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My mistake. Same size. I still think it is not needed. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Augh! is right! Oh, that's just plain idiotic. The only rationale I can see is that they don't want to have to retool all of the old coin-op machines in the post office and public transit around the country (provided it will be about the same (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Augh! Quoting from (URL) (...) Why couldn't they have gone with a 27 or 28mm diameter? That would have been enough to differentiate the two coins! At least it won't have the same 'reeded' edge as a quarter! Hopefully, the thickness and weight (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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