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Re: Different prejudices and $.02
Legend (jackechs@EROLS.COM)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:29:00 -0400
Neither nickels nor pennies are legal tender last I heard and yes they still
make them. While both are excepted they do not have to be. If you walk
into a store with 500 hundred pennies or 100 nickels the store can refuse to
except them ... however, if you give them 50 dimes that's another matter. I
do not know why they are not legal tender, but my guess would be to enable
businesses/governments from being the victums of smart asses who pay their
$500 dollar fine in pennies, etc. Also, it was a while ago that I learned
this it's quite possible that some lawsuit or another has changed things.
My point still counts though when you consider what you can buy for two cents.
At 08:46 AM 4/24/96 -0400, Marie K Conrad wrote:
>Cents are not legal tender? Odd, I just used one yesterday to pay for
>something and it was accepted. And I was planning on putting a bunch of
>the worthless little things into rolls and taking them to the bank. They
>used to take them before . . . have they stopped? :)
>Marie Conrad
respectfully yours, Anthony D
"It was a pretty big year for predators; The marketplace was on a roll
And the land of opportunity; Spawned a whole new breed of men without souls
This year, notoriety got all confused with fame; And the devil is downhearted
Because there's nothing left for him to claim ..."
The Garden of Allah, (c) 1995. Actual Miles Henley's Greatest Hits CD.
Don Henley, Stan Lynch, John Corey, and Paul Gurian
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