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12-22-2008, 07:10 AM
Washington Metro Transit System Embraces $1 Coins in Time for the Holiday Season and Inauguration
12-21-2008 10:00 PM
http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/default.jpg WASHINGTON - While commuters hustled to meet their trains today in the District of Columbia's Metro Center Station, United States Mint Director Ed Moy and Metro's Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Chief Financial Officer Carol Kissal announced a new initiative that will place thousands of $1 coins in farecard vending machines. Now all of them accept and dispense $1 coins. Each farecard machine will be stocked with Presidential $1 Coins, Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coins and the new Native American $1 Coins, scheduled for release in January 2009. The United States Mint and Metro believe that dispensing $1 coins as change will help to increase the awareness of and promote widespread use of the $1 coins. This initiative kicks off in time for the holiday season and upcoming inaugural events.
More... ( http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=972 )
12-21-2008 10:00 PM
http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/default.jpg WASHINGTON - While commuters hustled to meet their trains today in the District of Columbia's Metro Center Station, United States Mint Director Ed Moy and Metro's Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Chief Financial Officer Carol Kissal announced a new initiative that will place thousands of $1 coins in farecard vending machines. Now all of them accept and dispense $1 coins. Each farecard machine will be stocked with Presidential $1 Coins, Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coins and the new Native American $1 Coins, scheduled for release in January 2009. The United States Mint and Metro believe that dispensing $1 coins as change will help to increase the awareness of and promote widespread use of the $1 coins. This initiative kicks off in time for the holiday season and upcoming inaugural events.
More... ( http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=972 )