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From: notes@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: New Look for U.S. Paper Money - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 18:31:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 11 18:31:19 1983
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isrnix!akp    Nov 11 05:44:00 1983

I get the impression that we won't have the opportunity to dislike this
new stuff... Since nobody heard about it until it was (almost?) final,
the Treasury is obviously unconcerned with what we consumers think of our
money.  One thing they might have done' if they were going to change things,
it make the bills TACTILE: make some difference between denominations which
can be sensed without sight.  Raised bumps could have been managed, or
different sizes (hard to do in the U.S., but they do it in Europe...),
or another concept of the "woven thread" -- put a heavy thread through the
middle for ones, 1/3 down the bill for fives, 1/4 down for tens, etc.
But since nobody seems to have been consulted on this, we'll just have
to live with what Big Brother shells out...
				-- Allan Pratt
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