----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2001-12-26 08:29 Subject: [USMA:16876] 1$ coin:some experiences
> The last time I got a 1 $ roll of 25 coins, some of > the new Sacagawa coins looked very old > 1. Which means they are being used heavily. Was the roll a yellow US Mint wrap or one that had been refilled? The US Mint wrappers expose the end coins to the air and they oxidise and discolour. If all the coins are discoloured it does mean they have been exposed to the air for some time. It takes a few weeks for the coins to turn to a bronze colour. These coins are being used more then some will let on. > 2. The person at the bank has to complete a small > form, every time she has to give a 1 $ roll for a > customer. I dont know why this practice, when it is > not there for quarter, dime and nickel coin rolls. My bank teller either has them under her counter or has to go to the vault for them. The only time she has to fill out a form is when the order more from their main vault. She only does this when they run low on stock and she orders 1 k$ worth at a time. > 3. A guy at Costco looked curiously, so many people > have not seen the coin. I see less and less of this. Once at Wal-Mart, the cashier told me some people thought the coin was Canadian when she tried to give it out as change. A few cashiers have told me they are seeing more and more of the coins. I llok in the drawers of many cash registers when it opens and I see more of those coins now then before. > 4. Sent a mail to Washington Metro authority asking > them to use 1 $ coins, so that they can render more > money in change instead of the current limit of 5 $. > No response yet. > Note: When you buy a ticket at Washington DC Metro for > 5 $ and insert a 20 $ bill, then you will get only 5 $ > in change instead of 15 $, so dont get shocked. > Otherwise its an excellent Metro system in the World. In Washington DC.? I'm surprised they don't take them. Cleveland was accepting Suzzie Bs long ago as tokens. They switched over to the Sacagewea without a hitch. If they don't respond, find out who controls them and complain. When did you write them? Also, back in the days when bill changers were added to postal machines, the max change you could get was 3 $, and that was in quarters. So, if you put in 20 $, you would have to vend 17 $ worth of product. Once they started using the dollar coins, the Suzie Bs, you could put in a 20 $ bill, buy a few bucks worth of stamps and get the rest back in dollar coins. It sounded like a slot machine. > 5. The lady in our Cafeteria says that you are the only person giving this coin. Maybe so, but I'd bet she is fibbing. She probably tells that to everyone who gives her one in order to shame them into not using them. Up until this fall, when I would buy the coins from the bank, sometimes I would get a re-wrapped roll of ones the bank got back from business customers or others. But, the teller I go to only gets a very small trickle now. Businesses must be getting tired of them piling up in their till and having to lug them to the bank, so they just give them out as change. A Wal-mart cashier told me she is not allowed to have any left over in her drawer at the end of the day. And other cashiers have told me they are giving them out. Some only when they run out of paper dollar bills. They are slowly but surely being circulated. All in all, I have yet to get a 2001 dollar coin, they are all dated 2000. Hopefully next year all the 2000 stock will be in circulation and I'll see some 2001 stock. > > Anyway for me, when I put the coins for (shuttle bus) > in my pocket, I also put a few 1 $ coins, so I need > not take out my wallet when I go to the Cafeteria. > > Madan > John
