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yelnats@BLUE.ocis.temple.edu (Bob Yelnats) wrote:
>1514F5F@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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>milkman@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu wrote:
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>> >BTW, anyone need a few million SBA dollars?  The Treasury has _plenty_
>> >of them, but I was told they're basically out of circulation.  Not even 
>> >the Atlantic City casinos use them.
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>> >Paul Havemann (paul@hsh.com)
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>> ><disclaimer> I don't speak for my employer. </disclaimer>
>
>> Ok I'll bite, what's an SBA dollar?
>
>Its a Susan B. Anthony one dollar coin. Its lack of popularity stems from
>the fact that its almost identical in size and shape to a quarter coin. 
>As far as getting rid of them, the United States Postal Service uses them
>all the time. When you buy stamps from a stamp machine, the change, if its
>more than one dollar is often dispensed in the form of SBA coins.  What I
>do is save up enough of them to buy another book of stamps than I put them
>right back in the machine where I got them and get my stamps that way. 
>

I bought a cashier's check at the bank a couple of weeks ago and the fee 
was 4.00  I used a single, and three SBA's that I had gotten as change 
from a postal stamp vending machine.  The teller scooped them up with the 
single and politely asked for an additional 2.25 - so I asked her...."Is 
THIS bank devaluing U.S. currency all by itself?"  She looked at me like 
I was nuts.  I told her those were dollar coins and she looked again.  
Puzzled - she had to call for her line supervisor (this was after she 
pushed them back towards me and asked if I had three more dollars - I 
said sure do! and I gave them back to her)- "I don't have a slot for 
these in my drawer"  What an idiot!  

All in all, I got what I wanted out of those SBA's....a nice little 
chuckle!


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