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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jim Holland wrote:

> > "This ranks with me along the Redwood Highway in
> > California, handing a clerk a Susan B Anthony dollar.
>
> > "She looked at it, and handed it back, telling me
> > 'We don't take foreign money'."
>
> 	Big__Deal.     Just because it is legal tender does not mean
> that  *EveryOne*  is  INSTANTLY  familiar with the coin
> Immediately After it is minted.

I expect people to be able to read.

> 	They ain't too common in the west  --  MAYBE  a dozen or so have
> been put into my farebox  --  can't remember handling one of them
> myself  --  so I do Not really know what they look like!     I
> would question the coin myself  --  Just The Prudent Thing To Do!

It all depends how you ask.

> 	Much of this thread is little more than garbge talk.

Sure. No mint in Pittsburgh. Wrong end of the state;-)