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Ohio Firm Sends Pennsylvania 'Free' Money That Comes with Price.

By Todd Mason, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 25--Would you pay $1.48 for a free quarter?

That's the bottom line in an advertisement that appeared yesterday in The Inquirer. "Remaining PA state quarters are to be given free to state residents," read the ad's headline.

The U.S. Monetary Exchange, a private company, promised to mail "mint fresh," uncirculated quarters with the Pennsylvania seal to people who send three first-class postage stamps to a post office box in zip code area 44309, which turns out to

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