This would be a dick move in that he went out of his way to pay in inconvenient currency. It’s like the old stories of folks paying a debt in pennies. Or the bit from the Mary Tyler Moore show where Murray has lent Ted some money which Ted can never repay because he only carries large bills and Murray can’t make change. After days of this, Murray gets enough cash to make change … in nickles.
Back to the OP:
Every cash register I’ve ever seen (been a cashier in some capacity since 1987) has 5 places for coins. That’s pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, and the last one for dollars and half-dollars. Only a store that gets a LOT of half dollars is going to have any problem with a few dollar coins.
Me, I use them for bus fare, as they go into the machines MUCH faster than bills in the bill acceptor.
In Canada, we have one dollar coins (loonies) and two dollar coins (twonies) and I like them a lot because we are avid yard sale and flea market people. Loonies and twonies go in one pocket, quarters and dimes in the other. I hate to negotiate a lower price then haul out a bill and ask for change. When we get home, all coins go in our coin sorter for next week. For expensive purchases, I ask my wife to pay with bills.
I have recently been involved in a charity project that involved some canisters, and I got several dollar coins in them. They had John Tyler on them.
I counted out the money and wrote a check to the organization. I now have about half a spaghetti sauce jar full of change from that project. As for the dollar coins, I have a small jar hidden away that contains Susan B. Anthony, Sacajawea, and other dollar coins.
My brother has two kids who are now teenagers. When they were very young, he got a pack of $2 bills and that was their Tooth Fairy money.
I think all this nay-saying about dollar coins is silly. I think the U.S needs more coins. Bring back the half dollar, force circulation of dollar, two dollar, and five dollar coins, and just for fun, mint a few billion mill coins!
In Canada they stopped printing $1 bills when the loonie came out and $2 bills when the toonie did. They have now stopped minting pennies and people have gotten accustomed to the amounts being rounded up or down. People adapt.
And the odd cents are rounded down too. I witnessed an amusing incident at the drugstore the other day. A woman was buying some that, with tax, came to $2.17. The clerk incorrectly rounded that to $2.20. The customer gave the clerk $2.20 who duly entered it into the case registered that told her to give back a nickel change. Which she did. I don’t think either of them had any understanding of what had happened.
I do too! I hoard them. I think they are neat but its nothing different than saving change in the five gallon water bottles.
As far as pennies are concerned, I considered going to the bank for $20 or more in pennies to throw in the driveway and mix it with gravel. Some little kid will come along some day and find them. :eek::eek:
Heh. I did something similar at the first house we owned. I’d inherited my parent’s shell and fossil “collection” == it was nothing special, they’d just made a thing out of collecting all the shells they came across whenever they went to a beach their entire married life. Plus they’d spent a couple of vacations at a national (?) park where you could go prospecting for fossils, and had several dozen little rocks with impressions of leaves and seashells and some trilobites.
Anyway, I’d never known what to do with them. I had no interest, but it seemed disrespectful to simply throw them out. Then I had an idea: the house we were living in had an old stone wall, from preRevolutionary days, that ran along one side and onward past a few more yards.
So I took the whole collection of shells and fossils one day and walked along the wall, tucking them into the cracks and gaps of the wall. I like to imagine some kid some day finding one by accident, and then looking around and finding more and more and more… And wondering what the heck seashells are doing in a New England forest a hundred or more miles from the closest ocean.
Interesting choice for a zombie thread. Eight years later and dollar coins are much less common and, now that vending machines commonly accept debit cards, much less useful. I don’t remember the last time I saw one.
Eight years ago, I thought this was a minor dick move. Today, it would be a touch more annoying, though probably not much more than if the debtor had written me a check. Today I’d treat the coins like I’d treat a check: I’d take them to the bank. A minor inconvenience, but, since I visit a branch maybe twice a year at the outside, still a bit of a hurdle. Then again, I don’t live anywhere near a toll road. Are they still used in those circumstances? I have no idea.
I did lend someone $50 the other day. Perhaps “donate” would be a better term; I’ve literally never known her to have money, and I don’t expect to ever see the cash again.
I realize ralph124c is suspended currently and his comment was from a while back, but my guess is that he’s never been to a strip club in Canada. The Looney ($1 Canadian coin) is primarily given out as tips there.
I have no special insight, but my guess is that he never came back to ask for reinstatement. I don’t remember the circumstances of his suspension, however, or for how long the moderators had originally suspended him. He might well have simply decided to not come back.
I have a very old silver dollar from the 1800’s. It would probably be worth something to a collector except for the fact that it is significantly worn. Though not a collector myself, I do know that “mint condition” has the greatest worth by far, and worth declines significantly if a coin is worn.
Still worth something if only for the melt value. When my father died I was tasked with liquidating his coin collection. Few of them were worth anything much, but we did it when silver was $42/oz, so it paid out quite well.
