[PRCo] Re: Changed to: Do we need gold dollars and pennies

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to Fred and all

We are spending a lot more on printing dollar bills.
They are expensive.  

Canada has used $2  bills for decades with no problem.
They have a good $1 coin

Each dollar bill we use costs a lot to reprint.

Coin machines need $1 coins to give change.  They can refund bills.

Ticket machines on NJ Transit give $1 coins as change.  If I buy a senior one way to NY from Morristown, I can use a $5 or 10 bill and get coins back.  Much more convenient than exact change to pay fare.

Rapid transit and commuter rail favor $1 coins.  Whats the problem?

Question......Do Baltimore LRT machines give change?   

Harold Geissenheimer

Hatrold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
Sent: Jan 13, 2004 2:06 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Changed to: Do we need gold dollars and pennies

So push the delete key.

Jim Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
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> > Fred Schneider wrote:
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> > You want to see "gold" dollars, ask me.
> >        I never go out without a pocket full of them.
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> Cheeze--Whiz, Girls, get with the program    ----
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>         Strip off the gold foil and eat the chocolate.
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> Jim
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