American Coin Currency Query.

[goldenmole]

When travelling in the US as a European the lack of larger denomination coins and the large amount of 1-USD bills one accumulates needs some getting used to. Thinking about it: it also seems that color and size of the bills are almost the same (very different for different Euro denominations). Also: living in DK almost all transactions are via credit card or other cash-less electronic means, such that I often for months don't have any banknotes in my purse. Some countries are still more used to cash and to be on the safe side one always needs to carry some banknotes (US, but also for example Germany)...

 

[condorlover1]

You forgot about the CSA $50 with Jeff Davis - probably one of the prettiest notes put out by the Confederacy but it probably doesn't count since you couldn't buy a six pack with one today!

 

[anotherbob]

Danimalia, we do actually have a £5 coin but they are rarely seen. I once gave one to a bus driver for my fare and his face was a picture to behold. He thought I was giving him funny money!

Regards,

Jay.?

like our two dollar bill. I've worked retail and everytime I got one the person asked if we'd take it first because no one else would.

 

[anotherbob]

You forgot about the CSA $50 with Jeff Davis - probably one of the prettiest notes put out by the Confederacy but it probably doesn't count since you couldn't buy a six pack with one today!

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I am sure some people would trade you for a six pack.

 

[kcghost]

We do like to put presidents on coin but once they are deceased.

 

[condorlover1]

You know you are probably right as I spent a CSA $10 in Richmond about 25 years ago as I used it to pay for a beer in a bar.

 

[anotherbob]

You know you are probably right as I spent a CSA $10 in Richmond about 25 years ago as I used it to pay for a beer in a bar.

there are plenty of reasons a person would take that over american money. One it's rarer. That's why I would say sure even if it meant I had to personally cover the cost.

 

[Zack Miller]

I had a great coin collection, much of it passed on from my grandfather. Lots of nineteenth century coinage, gold, pre 1963 silver. My ex-wife grabbed it and sold it off for pennies on the dollar. ?

 

[seldom]

Many of the following are seldom encountered dollar coins in a presidential series as well as commemorative coins. Here you go, from Wikipedia: List of presidents of the United States on currency

 

[condorlover1]

@anotherbob: I used to have loads of the 1864 issue of CSA currency. I worked for a bank in London that were the paying agents for the CSA overseas bond holders and we had loads of the stuff down in the vaults marked at zero on the banks balance sheet. In the mid 80s the bank decided to clear it out so I took several back packs of the stuff home with me. I used to make up sets for my American friends as gifts and when I moved over here I took a bunch with me. In 1997 I was in Richmond having a beer near a restaurant called the Tobacco Barn and jokingly offered a CSA $10 in payment for a beer and the bartender said yes!

 

[scloyd]

The problem with the modern U.S. dollar coins (Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Presidents) is they're similar in size as a quarter...slightly larger.

 

[Jaylotw]

The problem with the modern U.S. dollar coins (Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Presidents) is they're similar in size as a quarter...slightly larger.

I’ve had cashiers not recognize them as real currency, too!

My dad had a killer coin/currency collection when I was a kid. All kinds of neat stuff from all over the world, locked up in a safe. I used to open it up and sort through all the coins, learned how to do math as a youngster looking at coins from 18xx and figuring out how old they were. My brother pawned the whole collection for heroin a year after my dad died.

Another oddity with currency...in the UK, you have a .20 pence coin? Our equivalent is .25 cents. Not sure if one makes more sense over the other, but a curiosity to me.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Thinking about it: it also seems that color and size of the bills are almost the same"

Goldenmole, that has often puzzled me too!

Someone once told me to inspect my US dollar note under my microscope to find the little owl. Sure enough I found it......after about half an hour searching ?

Regards,

Jay.?