Monday, March 10, 2008

Monroe quiet over $1 coin

MONROE - When the new $1 U.S. coin bearing the image of this town's namesake made its debut last month, it came with little hoopla.

There was the man from Springfield who drove the 60-odd miles north and west to get here in Franklin County, thinking the town was minting the coin in honor of the nation's fifth president James Monroe.

It's believed, though, that not even one of the town's just under 120 residents has one of the coins yet. ...

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