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 Posted 12/23/2008  9:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinzip to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What a waste of time and cents......
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 Posted 02/27/2009  5:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Isn't all American currency legal tender for all debts, public and private?


Fines are not debts.
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 Posted 02/27/2009  5:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Following on the heels of this story a bloke in England mailed a box of ten pence coins in to a local authority to pay a parking fine. The local authority thought it might be a bomb so they evacuated the whole building!
Or the time I mailed $19,000 in gold to the refinery i1980 and they tossed it over with the silver. When I asked a couple weeks later what the delay was, they discovered the error and sent a wire a few minutes later.
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 Posted 02/27/2009  6:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Meanwhile back to the original post. I think the problem is the latest craze about short rolls. People everywhere have gone to leaving out one coin per roll of all coins they take to the banks or stores or wherever they spend them. Around me Bank of America has started a policy of when you bring in coins, any coins, they are put into a plastic bag, sent to an independant organization for counting. The REAL amount is entered into your account, minus a charge for this service. NO ACCOUNT? No problem. Just a higher cost and you wait until your notified of the results. OH, one more thing is the notification is also deducted from your amount.
As to the age old PENNY discussion. This has been on Coin Talk before. Songs such as:
Pennies From Heaven, Penny Lover, Penny on the Floor, Penny Serenade and many others. And for the older people remember Giddy Up 409? In that song it says "Well I saved my Pennies and I saved my Dimes"
I've said this before too. We have 5 Bucks, a Saw buck, a Fin, Two Bits, a Ten spot, C-note, Nickels and anything else we want to call our money. This is America and not England. We do not speak English, we speak American. (Except in some neighborhoods lately)
At one time our parents said not to say AIN'T. Now it's in the dictionary. This is America. Get used to it.
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 Posted 02/27/2009  11:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add QuickSilver to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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We do not speak English, we speak American


It's certainly called English, but you are right you don't speak English.

Well, not very well anyway!

The beauty of English is it's ability to absorb new words like no other language can because of the number of different sources that it originally came from, and the number of different countries it is spoken in.

While there are an awful lot more Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world than there are English speakers, they are for the most part confined to one country. It probably doesn't get the diversity of usage English does.
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