# Adventures with $2 bills

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-2-bills/988482>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 12, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-2-bills/988482 "2023-08-12T22:59:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 39

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-2-bills/988482/39 "2023-08-14T11:01:45Z")

</div>

I had a thread years ago about dollar coins I received as payback for a loan. I wasn’t amused.

> [@What to do with dollar coins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-dollar-coins/531852):
>
> A guy who owed me $50 paid me yesterday, with dollar coins. Dick move, IMHO. Anyway, what would you do with fifty dollar coins? It seems rude to pay a restaurant check with a pile of coins, doesn’t it? A friend in retail tells me that cash registers do not have a place for dollar coins, so they are a pia. Maybe I’ll take them by the bank and get real paper money. I haven’t had any of these coins before. The have the Statue of Liberty on one side, and Paul McCartney (when did he die?) on the …

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-with-2-bills/988482)._