Sacs and Sucres

I know Ecuador uses US dollar coins in everyday commerce and you would
expect to see Sacajawea dollars there. (I'm unsure if we send them
Presidential dollars too.)

But what I found in a roll of dollar coins reverses this: a 1986 one
sucre coin from Ecuador! I wonder how this coin made it to the US.

Paul

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Paul Anderson
OpenVMS Engineering
Hewlett-Packard Company

Paul Anderson wrote:
I know Ecuador uses US dollar coins in everyday commerce and you would
expect to see Sacajawea dollars there. (I'm unsure if we send them
Presidential dollars too.)

But what I found in a roll of dollar coins reverses this: a 1986 one
sucre coin from Ecuador! I wonder how this coin made it to the US.

Paul

I don't know how it got there, but you got ripped! :-) The sucre is pretty much
worthless. Certainly not worth the dollar that it replaced in the roll.

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Ed Hendricks

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:48:13 -0400, Paul Anderson
wrote:

I know Ecuador uses US dollar coins in everyday commerce and you would
expect to see Sacajawea dollars there. (I'm unsure if we send them
Presidential dollars too.)

But what I found in a roll of dollar coins reverses this: a 1986 one
sucre coin from Ecuador! I wonder how this coin made it to the US.

Oddly enough, I purchased a new automobile on Monday. The salesman
was from Ecuador. That didn't strike me as unusual since there are
many South Americans living and working in Florida.

Had you posted this on Monday morning, I would have asked the guy if
he brought any Ecuadorian pocket change into the country.
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL