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From: phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom)
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Mark Anthony Beadles (beadles@acm.org) wrote:
: <Of course, here in Michigan, everybody accepts Canadian
:  coinage, too. I tried to use some Canadian coins in
:  Georgia once.  The clerk wondered why I was trying to
:  pass foreign money. :) >

As well he should.  In the US, Canadian coinage *is* foreign money, the 
common misperception that Canada is a state notwithstanding.  Of course, 
my manager in my old retail job used to say that canadian coins were not 
"real" money.  I never gave in to that view.

Peter

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