Turn off "money" formatting?

Is it possible to turn off the "$" and "," that appear in "money" formatted
columns so I can dump the table in a numeric format?

The man page hints that lc_monetary controls the formatting but I
cannot find any clues on what to do...

Apparently money cannot be cast to anything.

I don't think it will be hard to write a custom tcl/perl
script that takes a "copy checks to...."  command to do the task
but I would like a cleaner solution....


Jerry