Ever Pay With A Coin Or A Bill That Was Very Old?

I have spent 1973 issue Canada $1 bills as well as nickel dollars and 50 cent pieces. It is amusing to see the puzzled look on cashier's face while they decide whether or not to accept them. I was actually refused at a gas station when I handed over a pile of the 50 cent pieces. Rather than create a scene I payed with my debit card instead.

bought 3 ounces of silver with old 1973 worn out 1$ bills, (when silver was at 27$) that's a lot of 1$ bills.

i have paid at tim hortons with 50c pieces and nickel dollars!

haha love it Bm0ney

About 12 years ago, my daughter had a soccer tournament in Montreal. I was on a very tight budget at the time. On the way home, I had to use a 1937 $100 bill to buy gas. The station was somewhere off the 401. I wanted to return to get back that note, but didn't remember where it was.
I was hurt for several years. I keep reminding myself the note was in terrible condition :-(

Australia replaced the One Dollar Note with a One Dollar Coin in 1984.
Within a year or so, there were no One Dollar notes in circulation, but they have remained Legal Tender.
In 1998, I found a stash of about 20 VERY circulated One dollar notes, worth no more than face value.

I gave them to my kids to spend. At least, THEY had a lot of fun!

There were two main reactions at the cash registers:
Refusal top accept by younger checkout operators, and
surprised acceptance by older checkout operators,
who used their own coins to replace the notes received in the till.

here in austria and germany, because of the euro,the oldest coin in circulation could be from the year 1999.
EURO is in circulation since January 1. 2002, striking began in 1998/99, when the new currency has been introduced as so called "Buchgeld" (giro-money).
before the euro, until 2002, the oldest coins in circulation I got or used as change, were 1, 2, 5 and 10 Pfennig from Germany dated 1948 and 1949, and also 50 Pfennig 1949.

I used to turn in my ratty 5s from 1986 or 20s from 1969 when I was low on cash. But back then even that was common. You can't even spend a paper $100 or $50 today without looking like a criminal, and it doesn't help being a young male while doing so - people are so prejudiced against my type, it's unreal.

I don't spend any nickel or copper. Those are my true savings that'll never get spent. New money gets turned in like crazy because it's just nasty and valueless, in my opinion.

i hear ya windchild!