Re: Court sez Treasury must make bills discernable by the blind

"Dave Allured" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> RF wrote:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_go_ot/blind_money
>
> A great reason to phase in dollar coins and stop printing $1 bills.  But
> the popular press is too stupid to talk about this alternative.
>
> They say that changes to paper bills could cost billions to redesign
> vending machines.  Yet a large ****tion of US installed vending machines
> are for small ticket items where $1 is usually the largest currency
> inserted.  And many of these machines already have installed dollar coin
> mechanisms.  The vending machine industry should be all over this.
>
> --Dave

The three Scottish banks who issue notes change their note designs fairly 
often with no problem for the vending industry.

Change of size and design, no problem.  Billy