At 12:53 PM 1/9/99 +1030, you wrote:
>Are they polymer rather than paper like all ours are now?
Still paper, but with a few more security features.
>To save money, the govt withdrew all coins below 5c, we now have $1 & $2
>coins,
The US could have hundreds of millions of dollars by doing that (at least
$1 coins) but it has been demonstrated around the world that the only way
to do that *successfully* is to pull the bills out of circulation
immediately as the coins are released.
Our "Susie B" dollar was a failed attempt -- becuase the bill was not
pulled. People claim silly things like it was too close in size to the
quarter (BS - try it sometime) or it was too heavy.
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Received on Sun Jan 10 1999 - 18:56:26 GMT