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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 191765, member: 5719&quot;]I was in the Minneapolis area for work - the first of several trips this year - and with some unexpected time to kill at the airport, I decided to indulge my other hobby which is &quot;anything about trains.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The light rail that runs from downtown Minneapolis through the airport to the Mall of America was close enough.&nbsp; I went over to the automated ticket machine and noticed that it provides change in dollar coins.&nbsp; So I decided to use a $5 bill even though I had the two singles I&#039;d need for the light rail fare.&nbsp; &nbsp; Who knows, I thought, maybe I&#039;d get a Presidental Dollar!&nbsp; Yeah, right, maybe some beat up Sacs in that lovely shade of brown that they become.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was quite surprised to see that two of the three dollars were what looked like brand new 2001-D Sacajaweas.&nbsp; I wonder where they&#039;ve been hiding?&nbsp; Perhaps in the &quot;use these up already&quot; pile.&nbsp; So they came back with me for Thalia Elizabeth&#039;s collection-- she really likes these &quot;Mommy/Baby Dollars&quot; as she calls them.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Plus, they started in 2000, which is when she was born.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Later, at the airport, I needed to get a bottle of water for the trip and I broke a $20 in a change machine in the airport to get the dollar coins needed for the vending machines.&nbsp; No, not 20 coins, please!&nbsp; But a $20 for three $5s (which I needed later for the cab home!) and five dollar coins.&nbsp; This time, they were more like I expected, although one was a pretty clean 2001-P. </p><p><br /></p><p>The key messages: First, it looks like we&#039;re still going through our collective stash of unused Sac dollars from near the start of production; second, at least there are still some machines that will use these coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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