Paying a debt with coins.

[Fuzzywulfe]

Technically, a traffic ticket is not a debt; it’s a fine or punishment.

[Bricker]

@Isilder

Laws in various jurisdictions have actually removed coins from “legal tender”.
Specifically that the law does NOT require the handling of large amounts of coins.

The teller can refuse to handle your coins…

The U.K. Law was mentioned above – what others are you thinking of?

[Hari_Seldon]

@Gfactor

Check out my second link.

I did and it seems to refer to minor coins (1 and 5 cent coins, the ones that were not silver). I understood that the amount in pennies is limited to 25 cents, but the amount you can pay in dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollar coins is unlimited. And yes a merchant can specify what he will accept for something, but debts are different. “All debts public and private” would seem to mean all debts public and private.

Hijack: I once dated a girl named Penny, so named because her parents had paid the obstetrician’s bill with a jar of 1500 pennies (this would have been the late '30s).

[Northern_Piper]

@Bricker

The U.K. Law was mentioned above – what others are you thinking of?

Here’s the Canadian one, in the Currency Act:

Legal tender

8. (1) Subject to this section, a tender of payment of money is a legal tender if it is made

(a) in coins that are current under section 7; and

(b) in notes issued by the Bank of Canada pursuant to the Bank of Canada Act intended for circulation in Canada.

Limitation

(2) A payment in coins referred to in subsection (1) is a legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:

(a) forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;

(b) twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;

(c) ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;

(d) five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and

(e) twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.