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Clearly this is just another symptom of the Great Argentine Coin Shortage.

i.e., http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/06/08/090608ta_...

This has actually gotten better recently. They introduced a magnetic card for transportation(bus, subway, trains), SUBE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBE_card

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