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From: eager@amd.UUCP (Mike Eager)
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Subject: Re: Re: Credit Cards in Europe
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 21:06:32 EST
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> 
> > (They also have some neat self-serve stations where you feed paper
> > money into little machines -- wish we had them in Calif.).  And
> 
> They had these in Southern California a while ( ~6 yrs??) ago, but
> found that someone was *eroxing dollar bills and using them.  They
> pulled the machines back out.  I would have thought that the technology
> would have improved beyond that by now.

One thing about European currency -- it has different colors and different
sizes.  US currency is much harder to identify.  There is a proposal at the 
Treasury to convert to a more "secure" (not counterfitable, easier identifiable)
currency.  Who knows what will happen.   No more Greenbacks!