Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 11:55:23 -0400

From: Robert Kelly kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU

Subject: Re: Case quarter



This is pure inference, but: I've heard bank personnel (tellers once

upon a time) refer to coins as cased when they are in those stiff little

tubes we layfolk call tubes, the way they're delivered to retailers,

you know, the check-out clerk is always cracking one open while we wait

on line. What more natural than that coins so cased be identified as

case quarters, i.e., quarters you can case. (Rather than 25 cents

otherwise pieced together.)



Or, as Trimalchio would have said, why not?



rk