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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1980 Posts |
do you spend old paper money or coins that are really only worth face?
i was at the gas station yesterday and after filling up I went in to pay, the total was $30.20 so I handed the guy a 20 a 10 and a 50c....he looked at the coin for a bit and put it in the till then counted out $1.80 for my change as he handed it to me I said I dont think thats right. he said you gave me $32 I said no I gave you $30.50 so he pulls the coin from the till and says its a twoonie so I pointed to the side and said it says its 50c here.
at the dollar store I had them tell me nickle dollars and 50c were counterfeit. and old paper money lol dont get me started it really confuses the young people ,they put them under the blacklight hold them over their head looking at them, I had one person who took a few paper ones without saying anything when I got home I noticed the USA exghange rate on the receipt.
how about you have any stories to share? Edited by gidjit
05/03/2018 7:18 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5394 Posts |
We leave old one and two dollar bills as tips at restaurants out here .
As to fifty Cents and nickel dollars, my credit union will not accept them for deposit at all .
My wife's bank will take them however.
I have successfully spent fifty cent coins without most cashiers batting an eye . The Nickel Dollars a totally different story usually get them handed back as " What is this?"
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
The bank won't take nickel 50 cent or dollars for some reason...at least not CIBC. Dealers won't even look at them. The only way really is to spend them.
I've spent a handful of 50 cents and had a range of reactions. One younger person didn't know they existed, one guy was very excited and told me he was going to hold onto it, someone refused to accept it and some took it without saying anything. I still have a lot to go...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9162 Posts |
I've been giving both out for change for a few years now and I have had all the above responses. I like doing it at fast food places the young people have to ask if they can take them then when they do they say I'm going to keep this one.
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Valued Member
United States
441 Posts |
It's the same thing here in the states. If you try to pay a millennial with a two dollar bill you might get the cops called on you.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5589 Posts |
I get a bag of 250 nickel dollars every year from a friend. I give them out to the cart girls and bar waitresses at my golf course as tips. They EAGERLY accept them .. love em!
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Valued Member
Canada
291 Posts |
Okiecoiner ... I love it, they think you're being nice and eccentric but it's also a cheap way to tip!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1980 Posts |
i have had to make alot of trips to the hospital over the past year and thanks to okie I found out that 50c coins work in the parking meters and count as $1 and have saved alot in hospital parking fees
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Canada
10458 Posts |
I tip the bartender at my local pub with old 1, 2 and 5 dollar bills... he loves them
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I know it wasn't that far back that some newspaper boxes in the GTA took 50c coins. Now you get a phone call at a pay phone for 50 cents. I doubt they take 1/2 dollar coins though.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
Servers always remember you when you tip with older notes or nickel $1!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
In the 70s and early 80s I would ask for halves at Canadian banks while traveling in Canada. I started to carry a half in the banks with me b/c of the number of tellers I had to inform that,"Yes, Canada does make half dollars."
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Gidgit: Unfortunately, about a year or so ago, they came out with new-style parking meters that won't take the 50 cent pieces as loonies. They still work in some, though .. never tried one in a vending machine.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1571 Posts |
I'm pretty sure using a 50c coin as a higher denomination is illegal. Or perhaps with the parking meter, it's a loop hole since you are inserting Canadian legal tender and it just happens to be counting it wrong. Although I'm sure it you deposited a roll of 50c coins at the bank, and they credited you as depositing a roll of twoonies, you'd say something... or not.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1780 Posts |
Now I have that elusive 50 cent toonie hole to fill. . "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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These are funny stories... When we go to the restaurant, I always give the waitress a couple Nickel Dollars for a tip one day last week, I gave her 3 nickel dollars she looked at them for quite a while and, asked if they were real, I said yes they are real, she said...I'm going to keep them forever...lol |
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