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To: leadpenny
Every time I go in the bank I buy a roll or two of mixed Sacajawea and the Susan B Anthony's.

The change machine where I work exchanges these coins for paper bills. Automated checkout machines are unfazed by these, but human clerks are somewhat confused.

66 posted on 11/27/2006 11:42:48 AM PST by jmcenanly (Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: jmcenanly

About six years ago when the Sacajawea coin came out, my son was home on leave and we took a drive in the Virginia hills. I had a few of the coins in my pocket when we went into a tourist trap story in Sperryville, VA. I bought some peanuts and dropped three of the coins on the counter. The really old gentleman behind the counter, in a heartbeat, picked one of them up and in a voice I still have ringing in my ear he said, "What the hell?" I thought he was going to bite it to see if it was gold.


74 posted on 11/27/2006 11:48:19 AM PST by leadpenny
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