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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
Message-ID: <794@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 19:11:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 19:11:40 1986
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In article <1081@terak.UUCP>, doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>>      If I end up having to pay this tax,  can I pay them 626,018
>> pennies?  Can they refuse to accept pennies as legal tender?
>
>Yes, they can refuse.  "Non-silver" coins (pennies and nickels) are
>not legal tender in quantities exceeding 25 cents.  Seems kinda silly
>now that no coins are really made out of silver, and currency is no
>longer redeemable for silver.
>--
>Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug

So use dimes :-)
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