Follow-up to Playinghardball's post: The Most Widely Known Secret People Are Writing On $1 Bills

[shireen]

It's a great post!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1671141

But i have a question ... will writing on it make it unusable for vending machines? How do the scanners in those machines work, and does the ink from a marker pen mess up the authentication of the bill?

As you can see, i'm thinking about it carefully. ;)

Here's the brilliant photo he posted.


from http://front.moveon.org/the-most-widely-known-secret-people-are-writing-on-1-bills/

[PDJane]

1. That's wonderful........

but why do you still waste money on paper $1.00 bills? That's just weird.....

[hlthe2b]

2. So, you only trade in gold?

Huh?

[PDJane]

3. LOL...no. Like a lot of countries, we have a $1.00 coin.....

and a $2.00 coin, and I'm waiting for a $5.00 coin. Japan, Britain, and a host of other countries do so, too. In fact all EU countries have one and two euro coins.

It's cheaper than printing bills, since they last longer in circulation.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Point taken

but it'd take more than common sense and economic savings to convince Americans to give up their foldin' money: 'I'll give you my paper money when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!'

[immoderate]

4. One could (not real gold.)

--imm

[PDJane]

6. Aye, I have one of those somewhere.........

A friend sent it to me. However, that didn't gain widespread acceptance, for some reason. Maybe because you guys were given a choice? We just took $1.00 bills out of circulation, which is not to say that they aren't still legal tender.

[immoderate]

7. A dime now is about the value of a penny in 1960.

No reason to mint pennies and nickels.

--imm