Today I’ve used British Pounds, Euros, and will use US dollars later today. That’s not remarkable if you fly from London to the USA through Dublin. I’m sure there are people who have used a lot more, especially in the days before the Euro. What’s your personal best?
Probably combinations of three, as I used to travel on business in Europe a lot. A typical use would be Deutschmarks, francs and dollars. I used to carry a wallet with five different currencies, just in case my travel plans got interrupted. The most I ever used was likely when I finally returned to the states and exchanged all of my remaining European currencies for dollars at JFK. They wouldn’t take my rubles.
If you count local; three. Canadian, US and Baltimore all in one day. I am assuming online purchases where conversion is electronic does not count.
Baltimore has its own currency?
(14 Nov)
Canadian ( cab to the airport )
Honk Kong (Starbucks on the layover)
US ( bottle of Martell at duty free )
Singapore (straight out to eat, lah!)
Over a 2-day span I’ve used USD, Canadian $, GBP, and Euro, but only 3 of the 4 in any one 24 hour period of my 2 day flight (Orlando to Toronto to London to Madrid. I did the Toronto leg because it was cheaper than direct to London and I did the London leg because I was returning via London but I wanted to see the Prado so I took a vacation-within-a-vacation to Madrid and flew back to London the next day and continued with my English vacation.)
There is a Baltimore currency called the “B Note”. Many cities or regions in the US have a form of local currency intended to spur local development and business.
I’ve used three a few times, usually US Dollars, French Francs, and German Marks, but those days have passed. More recently I used US Dollars, Swiss Francs and Euros.
Wow! I’ve never heard of that before. So do you buy it at a bank? A money changer? Does it fluctuate in value? Is it accepted everywhere in the city? And what does it look like? I’m dead curious now!
Only 3 - GBP, ISK and USD
SEK, DKK, EUR and GBP. Invoices for that project were fun!
4 - USD, German Mark, Austrian Shilling and Italian Lira
Pre Euro days, I would travel to northern Italy fly into Frankfurt, catch a connection to Innsbruck and drive into Bolzona. One trip the company was having credit card issues so I had to take cash. Later in the trio I went to Genk, Belgium. My expense report for that trip was a nightmare.
Wow. I’ve never heard of anything like this. Where else in the US do they do such things? I’ve been to Baltimore, but only once, and just saw regular US currency around. Looking online, the bills look pretty neat. I, too, want to know how this all works.
I think three: sterling, euro and Czech krona.
I’ve used US Dollars, Saudi Riyal, UAE money (forget what it’s called), and Thai Baht all in one day.
Three: Euro, Swiss Franc, US dollar
If you want to cheat a little, we used to play multi-currency poker back when I worked at a business paper in Hungary (just barely pre-Euro). So a game may have forint, dollars, kuna, Turkish lira, deutsche marks, leu, francs, tolars, crowns, zloty, etc. I never counted them up, but up to a dozen or so currencies.
Otherwise, in a practical sense, probably around 5 currencies. Three currencies I’ve done many times. Four would probably be dollars (to change money), forint, leu (Romania), lev (Bulgaria.) Actually, now that I think of it, I definitely did 5 at least once: Croatian kuna, Hungarian forint, Slovak crowns, Polish zloty, and American dollars. That wasn’t one calendar day, though, but was in a 24-hour period. And probably also pound > franc > lira > tolar > dollar, when traveling by rail from London to Slovenia.
Two.
Canada has abolished their one-cent denomination, so there are a lot of out-of-work Canadian pennies that sneak across the northern border into Maine to steal jobs from American pennies around here. In any given day of shopping, it’s almost guaranteed that I’ll get at least one Canadian coin, usually a penny, although sometimes even nickels, dimes, and quarters, as most people just don’t care enough to look, and most stores around here will honor Canadian change at face value just as if it were American money, so long as it’s not a significant amount of it.
Hell, I once bought a roll of U.S. $1 coins from the bank, and it had two loonies in it.
Just recently, I got a one French Franc coin in my change. It was the same size and color as a nickel, and I didn’t even realize it until I got home. I save the foreign stuff anyway, so it was kind of cool to get it.
Some info here - List of community currencies in the United States - Wikipedia
Probably no more than three; last time was New Zealand, Australian, and USA Dollars, of course one day in this case includes a lot of time zones.
Most different currencies that I had in my pocket at one time was probably this past summer, where I had USD, Euros, Swedish Knoner, Norwegian Kroner, Russian rubles, and Danish Kroner all occupying my billfold.
In Mozambique, during the revolution in 1976, I bought some stamps in a village post office using a largish note I had brought from Malawi. The postal clerk told me to come back later, he would get change (not uncommon in the third world, even Mexico). When I returned, he handed me a pile of change that contained coins from Mozambique, Malawi, Portugal, Angola and South Africa. So that’s five in a single transaction.
I think last year, I might have used Philippines, Qatar, Bahrain, Ethiopia and USA the same day, with several flight changes and visa fees.