In the 80s I got a quarter per tooth until 1987, when the loonie was introduced, then I got $1. I’m not sure if the tooth fairy thought my teeth suddenly got more valuable, or if my Dad was just really taken with the new loonies.
I got a quarter. (born 1964)
I had a strange condition where my front baby teeth have very long roots. So I had to have them pulled. All of them at once. 10 teeth! (four top six on the bottom)
And I got $2.50!
In the late 1960s I used to get a five cent piece. Or occasionally a ten cent piece if the tooth fairy was feeling especially generous.
Born: 1978
Got 25 cents per tooth.
I got a quarter. I give $1 coins.
The tooth fairy never came to our house.
A man (I believe) of my own time and taste. 
Born 1969. I got a quarter for the first one and a dime for the rest. I remember thinking that my tooth fairy was a lot cheaper than the one who visited my little friends.
They are at least a 7 figure, maybe an 8 figure household. Sometimes I think they lose touch with the rest of us. Hey, if you can afford it, more power to you and I suppose it doesn’t really mean anything to the kid anyways. I’d be more worried about when the kid gets a bit older and he mentions it to his (not so rich) friends as if it’s nothing.
A quarter in the 1970’s.
BooziGirl gets two GOLD dollars (makes it special) although she’s informed me that other kids get $5 or $10. I told her every one has their own tooth fairy and ours doesn’t carry that much cash.
A neighbor gives her kid a small present (costs her between 50c and $1).
I was born in '69 and I got a quarter. My youngest gets a dollar. There is no way I’d give a kid five bucks for a tooth, much less fifty. That’s just ridiculous to me. What the hell does a six year old need fifty dollars for? My daughter would trade a dollar for a quarter just because the quarter is shiny.
The Family Circus has covered the tooth fairy on several occasions
An Eisenhower half dollar coin for each tooth in the 70’s. Still have all of them.
One thin dime. Born 1954.
$1 in the early 90s. I figure today the kid should get $3. But since that’s such an awkward amount to leave behind, just go with a 5-spot and call it karma.
What I plan on doing (and what my forgetful parents did on occasion) is telling the kid that the tooth fairy comes, but you never know which night. So on the first night, (s)he wakes up anxious for a dollar and finds the tooth still there. And the same the next night. Then on the third (or fourth) morning, there it is! The beautiful buck they’ve been waiting for for sooooo looooong!!
That oughta stretch it out long enough to be worth it.
I vaguely remember being pleased with a quarter for one of the later ones. So the earlier ones were probably less. At the time you could get a full sized candy bar for a nickle, for comparison.
The part that I really remember was that sometimes there would be a note instead of the coin. The clue on the note would lead to the location of another note . . . I think the fourth location usually had the money. We were not surprised that the Tooth Fairy had the same handwriting as Dad.
We were provided with a small matchbox to put the tooth in, so that it wouldn’t get lost. Once the matchbox was crammed with pennies. I guess the Tooth Fairy was low on silver at the time.
Born in 1969, received 50c pieces, sometimes silver dollars.
TheKid, born in 1993, received usually a dollar; however, she had to have 6 extracted (two at a time) and for those situations I gave her $5.00.
You old fogey. In my day that would only buy the two comics (plus 1 cent tax.)
My kids got a dollar per tooth, which wouldn’t have gotten them even one comic.
A shiny new dime!
Of course, since they were silver dimes, they are worth $2.75 today.