The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 11, March 18, 2007, Article 12

ARTICLE RECALLS 1982 CENT SHORTAGE

Dick Johnson writes: "A columnist in the Evansville Indiana Courier 
recalls the shortage of cents in 1982 this week. He remembers grocery 
stores asking customers over the loud speaker for their cent coins 
because of the penny pinch. It is one paragraph at the end of the 
story." [The paragraph follows. -Editor]

"Telltale signs of the shortage abound. A shopper at Great Scot 
supermarket can expect to hear a plea for pennies about once every 10 
to 15 minutes over the public address system. At other stores, checkers 
routinely ask customers if they have the needed one-cent pieces. And 
some banks have posted signs asking depositors to exchange their copper 
coins for other denominations."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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