[c6400sc]

I worked at the MTA for 6.5 years.

Al Putre is a guy with a friendly smile, a classic New York accent, and is not afraid to show you he's always carrying a revolver.

Oh, and a hatred of the dollar bill.

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[Scoundreller]

I remember buying a $3 trip on Atlanta’s public transit system and the machine pumped out 17x $1 coins at me.

The Canadian in me was very disappointed.

[c6400sc]

Ideally, you would have gotten bills back from the machine (if configured with something called a cash recirculator), but those aren't common.

And as a Canadian, I thought you'd be used to dollar coins ;) . The USA is pretty much the only developed country that uses bills for amounts that small-- which is a thorn in the side of the cash operation of places like NYC Transit.

[throwawayboise]

I'm not sure why anyone prefers a pocketfull of heavy coins to a few bills in a wallet.

[Scoundreller]

Bills have serial numbers, coins don’t.

But the Canadian would have preferred half as many $2 coins.

[bobthepanda]

There is a $2 bill, except people think it's rare and take it out of circulation, then making it actually rare and causing headaches for the US Treasury.

[rwmj]

It sounds like the Japanese 2000 yen note (although that's worth about $20). I was given lots of them when I changed money before a trip to Japan, but had some trouble using them because no one seemed to believe it was real money. A bus driver actually had to ring through to someone to verify it.

Reading the wikipedia article about them it seems I might have been better off selling them on ebay :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_yen_note

[iso8859-1]

Because they are more reliable and easier to clean. Machines rarely reject coins, they often reject legitimate bills. At least the ones I have used in Germany and Mexico.