Are 'Odd' Denominations Still Legal Tender?

And would silver certificates and gold certificates be considered semi-demonetized as they are still legal tender at their face value for all debts public and private but have lost their power to be redeemed in their respective precious metals.

Any bills that are considered "greenbacks" or whatever the heck you call it are still legal tenders. I'm guessing any coin issued by the mint is still a legal tender, other than the Trade dollar.

Imagine just walking into a post office and buying a stamp with a 3 cent nickel.

I am giving you a weird look for even suggesting it.

Congress no longer orders the mint to make Half Cents, Two Cent, Three Cents etc. Does that mean they are no longer official US coinage?

Or Lincoln Memorial cents, eagle quarters, SBA dollars...

If I remember correctly, the Coinage Act of 1965 has been interpreted to also have made all pattern coins produced by the US Mint legal tender (so long as they were made prior to that year).

But have pattern coins been monetized? That's the question. As that's what the government used as a legal defense for the '33 St. Gauden's Double Eagles, as they weren't monetized they were still the property of the government...semi-indicating that patterns must have been monetized as (most of them) are legal to own.

"Monitzed" is an interesting "weasel word". I had never seen the word applied to US coinage until the 1933 double eagle fiasco. The government used the claim that the coins were never "monitized" because they were never turned over to the Federal Reserve and because of that they were not really coins and still belonged to the government. Well NONE of the US coins were turned over to the Federal Reserve before 1913 because it didn't exist. So how were those coins "Monitized"? Also as soon as the coins are struck the government treats them as coins, records the seigniorage and transfers it to the general fund even before the coins get shipped to the Fed. So the government seems to think they are money even though they aren't "Monitized".

They don't count any seigniorage on patterns so they don't consider them to be coins. So I would say they are NOT "monitized". But they are legal to own, at last those up to 1890, Legally those after that aren't legal, but the government hasn't tried to confiscate them. Except of course for the 1974 D aluminum cent which they claim they never made. They have made noises about how the 1974 aluminum cents and the 1974 bronze clad steel still belong to them, but they have never made any attempts to reclaim them. They have also made no comments about the various Martha Washington patterns that have appeared on the market or the various 1916 Mercury dime and Walking Liberty half patterns that come up from time to time.