On 7/1/19 10:01 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
so that is what he paid me with. I kept
Washington State Ferries still use 50 cent pieces and 2 dollar bills a lot.
After years of receiving them as change, I finally asked why? The
reason is they reduce the number of hand movements by one half. If
you're sitting in a kiosk all day dolling out change, it can reduce
repetitive wris
"Silver dollar" used to be a large coin. (38.1mm) It was the standard for
casinos. When it was discontinued (1935), the casinos started to mint
their own chips/tokens as a replacement. There was a brief attempt to
revive the silver dollar in 1971 with the "Eisenhower Dollar".
It is quite rare t
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55, Steven M Jones via cctalk
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> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:50, Warner Losh via cctalk
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> Yea, I'm just the right age to have seen them in circulation and have it as
> a unit of measure for "just bigger than an inch". Sorry for the crazy
> measurement...
It's fine really. It's provoked an interesting if offtopic conversati
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Oh, FAR FAR FAR less than 5%.
*Chuckle*
> Most residents of USA haven't seen a half dollar or "50 cent piece" in
> decades. They are as much of an oddity as the $2 bill. They are
> nominally still in circulation, most recent being
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
Oddly, I, too, will trade computer items for coins and currency. I like the
green kind with presidents. ;)
Those are nice, but I'd rather have the ones with a picture of Ben
Franklin, who was not a president.
> If the note is in good condition, I'll buy it from you. I've been
> collecting US coins on and off for years, and started on GB coinage when I
> lived over there. Now I collect about everything, including currency, AND
> WILL TRADE COMPUTER ITEMS FOR COINS AND CURRENCY!
Oddly, I, too, will trade
On 2019-06-28 7:50 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part):
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for sp
If the note is in good condition, I'll buy it from you. I've been
collecting US coins on and off for years, and started on GB coinage when I
lived over there. Now I collect about everything, including currency, AND
WILL TRADE COMPUTER ITEMS FOR COINS AND CURRENCY!
Paul
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:5
On 6/28/19 1:54 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that
was in my leftover Canadian cash from
On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part):
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that
was in my leftover Canadian cash fro
On Fri, June 28, 2019 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it
>>> was for.
>
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>> If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
>> don't. I don't ev
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that was in my
leftover Canadian cash from a previous trip years before.
Two weeks ago I was in Lo
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:40 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 6/28/19 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
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> >
> > FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
> > bedroom dresser. There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
> >
On 6/28/19 12:18 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
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> FWIW, I just checked my "loose change" container that sits atop my
> bedroom dresser. There were two Kennedy half-dollars--one from 1968 and
> the other from 1983. I suspect that a great many are still in
> circulation.
For those who have
On 6/28/2019 11:59 AM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned
for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there
would be somewhere to put dollar coins in
On 6/28/19 9:57 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what
>>> it was for.
The big failure of the Susan B. Anthony coin was that it was about the
same size (slightly different shape) as a quarter-dollar coin, causing
people to mistake t
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:59, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
>
> On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
>> One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned for
>> them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there would be
>> somewhere to put dolla
'Is that a toonie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?'
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On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part):
One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned
for them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there
would be somewhere to put dollar coins in a register and they would be
used more often.
Canad
On Jun 28, 2019, at 09:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> It is quite rare that you will encounter one.
>
> It was later replaced with the Sacajewa dollar. Same problem.
> It is quite rare that you will encounter one.
>
> Then there was a commemorative series (gold colored) of presidents of
I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it
was for.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
don't. I don't even know if a half a dollar is a note or a coin, and
that's without getting e
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