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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3360786, member: 80804"]Back in the dark ages (the 1960's, when I was in college) it was possible - pathetically easy, actually - to fool the earliest bill-reading change machines. Coin laundromats were among the earliest to invest in and adopt this sort of thing. I suppose it was cheaper to buy even those very expensive (not too discriminating) early machines than to pay someone to sit there and make change all day for the patrons. I knew folks who took advantage of this technicality and the also very new availability of access to plain paper copying machines. There was one single "public" Xerox machine in the campus library back in the days before every corner convenience and/or drug store had figured out having a fax and a copier was a money-making proposition. Copying dollar bills was easy and the idiot early bill readers only looked at one side. For a quarter a copy, one could print off a page of the fronts of dollars and change the copies to quarters in the laundromat's machine.</p><p>By 1970 or so, the holes in that system had been plugged, however. </p><p>I always assumed the dollar was unchanged for the same reason we still have cent coins. It is perceived that, despite how obviously impractical and uneconomical those might be, "the public" demands them and rejects the obvious solutions. (Discontinue production of both, distribute the billions of already-struck dollar coins in Fed Reserve vaults and encourage rounding to the nearest 5¢) But when has common sense ever prevailed in the relationship between "the public" and "the powers that be"?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3360786, member: 80804"]Back in the dark ages (the 1960's, when I was in college) it was possible - pathetically easy, actually - to fool the earliest bill-reading change machines. Coin laundromats were among the earliest to invest in and adopt this sort of thing. I suppose it was cheaper to buy even those very expensive (not too discriminating) early machines than to pay someone to sit there and make change all day for the patrons. I knew folks who took advantage of this technicality and the also very new availability of access to plain paper copying machines. There was one single "public" Xerox machine in the campus library back in the days before every corner convenience and/or drug store had figured out having a fax and a copier was a money-making proposition. Copying dollar bills was easy and the idiot early bill readers only looked at one side. For a quarter a copy, one could print off a page of the fronts of dollars and change the copies to quarters in the laundromat's machine. By 1970 or so, the holes in that system had been plugged, however. I always assumed the dollar was unchanged for the same reason we still have cent coins. It is perceived that, despite how obviously impractical and uneconomical those might be, "the public" demands them and rejects the obvious solutions. (Discontinue production of both, distribute the billions of already-struck dollar coins in Fed Reserve vaults and encourage rounding to the nearest 5¢) But when has common sense ever prevailed in the relationship between "the public" and "the powers that be"?[/QUOTE]
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