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Nickelless
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 01/01/2008 : 12:16:24
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You're headed the wrong way. Uncle Sam is plotting the demise of the cent if not the nickle too. Besides it makes more profit to round the price up and not deal with the worthless cent.
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 01/03/2008 : 16:43:03
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It would be a complete waste of time. It's akin to buying a car with one dollar bills.
I accumulate nickels and dimes at about the same rate I use postage, so when I run out of stamps it's off to the post office where I spend 10 minutes feeding dimes and nickels into the machine.
A few years ago I had a several dollars of Canadian pennies from my grandfolk's penny stash. Banks don't take Canadian coin, and I didn't have enough US pennies to dilute the Canadian, so I found myself at the post office humming O Canada! as I plunked Canadian cents worth .0065 into the vending machine while it gave me credit for a full cent. Now that there is parity, that's not a possibility. |
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Ardent Listener
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 Posted - 01/03/2008 : 18:06:19
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Originally posted by El Dee
A few years ago I had a several dollars of Canadian pennies from my grandfolk's penny stash. Banks don't take Canadian coin,......
They sure take them and give them here in northeast Ohio. It's kind of a co-currency around here. |
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 01/04/2008 : 10:39:39
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Originally posted by Ardent Listener
They sure take them and give them here in northeast Ohio. It's kind of a co-currency around here.
I am in southern california, very close to mexico. Fortunately the mexican peso is not mixed into our money supply. Most signs in all banks are in spanish though. (except the korean banks, they do not cater to spanish speakers or english speakers for that matter)
There is a pizza joint that advertises you can pay in dollars or pesos. needless to say they do a lot of business in their part of town. |
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Retrofitting vending machines to accept pennies?
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