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Valued Member
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I forgot about the other day when I went to McDonalds and the guy gave me too much change back when I gave him a couple half dollars. I'm not sure what he thought they were (maybe dollars) but I gave the change back to him. I remember him looking at the coins for probably a good 10-15 seconds before finally muttering "whatever" and throwing the change into the register.
I'm lucky to have a mom who was a manager of a gas station and taught me a lot about money, counting money, and bringing home different types of coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Everyone should remember that so few today have seen coins like a 2, 3, 20 Cent coin. Same with a .50 coin, just not used a lot. And as to those baby sized dollars, so many organizations don't want them so people that work there don't see them either. Now if you remember that statistics claim we now have over 30 million Mexicans living here and working in places that take money, they would recognize a Peso long before most of our coins. Most fast food place hire kids and they too just don't see coins like a half dollar so you have to imagine what goes on in their heads when they see one. In stores today possibly half of the transactions are don't with plastic cards so those people too just don't see to many coins at all.
It is all so much like as if a cave man popped up on a street in a big city.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
Australia withdrew the paper one dollar note in 1984, but they were not demonetised.
Twenty years later, I gave ten one dallar notes to each of my two kids for them to spend, and have fun with.
That was at a time when only one dollar coins circulated, the notes never seen in circulation.
None of the young checkout chicks would accept them, but all of the people over about 50 years old behind the counter were delighted to accept them, and exchange their own pocket coin dollars for them.
My teenage kids had lots of fun recirculating the old 'funny money' !
Why on Earth cannot the U.S. withdraw all one Dollar notes, and compulsorily circulate one dolar coins only?
It all seems so illogical to me.
Great Britain did it.
Canada did it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Would it be any different if you paid for gas with 45 single bills?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
946 Posts |
So it seems I am not the only one that has encountered problems with other "non-numismatically" inclined people. I had a gas station attendant threaten to call the cops on me because I gave him a 20$ bill and then 8 Presidential dollars. I told him its legal US money and call whoever you want and I left. Seems to me if your from NJ anyone who works at a gas pump is a immigrant anyway and barely can make correct change from paper money. Nevermind hand him something he probably has never before seen in his life. |
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 United States
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Why on Earth cannot the U.S. withdraw all one Dollar notes, and compulsorily circulate one dolar coins only? Politics, or more accurately, lobbyists. Quote:
It all seems so illogical to me. It is. Quote:
Great Britain did it. Canada did it. Yup. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dollar coins, Kennedy halves, $2 notes - I do spend them, but judiciously so as not to get into arguments. I like leaving Ikes as tips. I've begun avoiding using the Susan B. Anthony coins, they really do confuse people for whom I'm really not trying to make their work day harder. Interestingly, I went to a bank yesterday to replenish my supply of these lesser used items, and the teller advised that someone had earlier in the week come in and completely wiped them out of all such. I patronize a particular Chinese retaurant regularly, and leave various Chinese coins (like QEII Hong Kong dollars) in addition to the appropriate tip in U.S. currency. The manager recently told me that her servers get a big kick out of that. Colligo ergo sum
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Valued Member
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The only place I drop off a lot of coins is at the bank. Otherwise, I'll go to get groceries and give them like $10 in halves or $10 in dollar coins. When getting a dollar or two worth of food at a drive-up place I'll usually give them all halves and watch their amusement. I haven't had someone refuse to take my money yet...I would probably lose it and walk out if someone did that. Personally, if I was working at one of those places >I< would buy the coins from the store. I've thought about getting a part-time job at a bank just to collect coins...wouldn't that be great?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I suspect the reason Our governmemt is holding off on doing anything about coins is the think soon enough all coins and cash will be useless. Plastic is taking over everywhere. Why use cash when one card is all you need and no change to worry about. And if I use my card, I get money back from the card company. So why not use a plastic card?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This past Easter I got 2 rolls of Halves from the bank to put in the eggs for our egg hunt. A couple of my nieces and nephews told their kids they had to save them because they're "special". Um.....nope just regular halves........
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So why not use a plastic card? Number of reasons. One, the card company talkes a cut with every transaction. To an extent, we already pay more for everything to cover the card usage that now occurs; if it became all plastic, we'd pay even more. Two, if all your transactions are via plastic, your life becomes an open book. Yes, I know the mantra, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." I've just never had anyone explain satifactorily to me what the benefit to having no privacy in your affairs is supposed to be. Third, if there's the vulnerability of a widespread cyber attack, in which case your card is likely dead. All commerce would come to a screeching halt for as long as those systems were down. Colligo ergo sum
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Valued Member
United States
439 Posts |
Chute72, yes, it would be different if they paid for gas with singles since there is a space for them in the cash register. Dollar coins are just a pain in the rump if you have very many because there isn't anywhere to put them if you don't pass them out in change.
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Valued Member
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Cash and coin is legal tender for all debts public and private (private being the key). A lot of people don't like a "paper trail" for the government to keep tabs on them. A card is nice because it's like carrying my bank account with me but I often will have my card and cash on me.
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Valued Member
United States
439 Posts |
yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that before about keeping the government from watching us too closely but I've always figured if the government doesn't have anything better to do than keep an eye on me things must be going pretty darn well. Maybe I'm just not enough of a rebel, I dunno.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I spend less when I use cash, it's that simple, although cash-back deals are attractive.
Wife has had two cards compromised since after Christmas by someone in and outside the US.
As far as dollar coins go, I can carry 100 times the cash a lot more comfortably, that's for sure!
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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