# Refusing an offensive payment for a debt

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refusing-an-offensive-payment-for-a-debt/600558>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refusing-an-offensive-payment-for-a-debt/600558 "2011-10-23T18:17:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refusing-an-offensive-payment-for-a-debt/600558/41 "2013-07-10T20:13:22Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Tom, you responded to an almost 12 year old thread.

2011, not 2001.

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> You might have better luck starting a new thread more specific to your questions.

This part is true.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refusing-an-offensive-payment-for-a-debt/600558/42 "2013-07-10T20:26:30Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Zombies don’t give a shit about what kind of legal tender you are carrying. They just want your bbbbbbbbbbrrrrrraaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnnsss.  
> Tom, you responded to an almost 12 year old thread. You might have better luck starting a new thread more specific to your questions.

Also, if you make a new thread to ask specifically about your own case, it should be started in the forum titled “In My Humble Opinion,” rather than General Questions.

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**Author:** ![Jokayhn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Jokayhn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jokayhn)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refusing-an-offensive-payment-for-a-debt/600558/43 "2013-09-08T13:31:28Z")

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In payment of a debt (not a new purchase) the debt can be paid in any legal tender including coins and a coin is not made less legal by not being rolled. I know of no law stating you can refuse money in payment of a debt based in inconvenience to you. You want the debt paid, the debtor has legal tender, you wither accept that payment or the debtor can consider the debt paid. Sound crazy, well consider the alternatives of al thoae coins piling up and no one willing to accept them or the person that has them being forced to pay a percentage to someone else to take them. Anyway, This is based on the coin act of 1965. If refused the debt is considered discharged (if a monthly payment vs entire debt then only that payment) in accordance with uniform commercial code.

U.C.C. - ARTICLE 3 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS , PART 6. DISCHARGE AND PAYMENT

§ 3-603. TENDER OF PAYMENT.

Don’t like it? Don’t make alternatives up out of how you view the world. Quote the law and remember the difference between purchasing a good or service and paying a debt. Even one that you just made by sitting down and eating dinner.

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