has anyone used one of these lately? one of my jobs involves me handling money and a cash register, and it has been well over a year since i last saw one of the things. i guess they went the way of the susan b anthony afterall.
--jacob
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
i ring about $3000-$4000 cash a day and i only see one or two of those things every few months. A fad, nothing more
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
I wonder that too.
I was at another board, there was a post about money. Asking you to tell your currency. I brought up the gold dollar and he thought it was was some collector coin, not actual money or old like Buffalo nickels and wheat pennies.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I've only seen a couple of them, and kept them both.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I just saw one yesterday, but it was the first time in a few months.
"i guess they went the way of the susan b anthony afterall."
Was there ever any doubt?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Yes.
Well, sort of. The latest attempt at a dollar coin tried to correct some of the Anthony errors, like looking too much like a quarter, and so on.
But to get people to use a coin instead of a bill, you generally need to pull the bill from circulation.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
See, the Canadian Mint's way ahead of you. They introduced the toonie, and the $2 bill was pulled from circulation. Never see $2 bills anymore. Same with $20 bills. They revamped the bills, and pulled the old ones from circulation. Just the other day I saw an old $20 bill in the till and was quite surprised.
I wonder how long it will be before the $5 bill is replaced with a coin. When that happens, we'll have to have little change pouches on our belts like medieval times. Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
If one uses a U.S. Post Office machine...such as for after-hours stamp buying...one gets change back in Sacagewea dollars.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Never see $2 bills anymore."
That's the way it is here, and we didn't even need a coin. :-)
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
I see two dollar bills all the time.. the way i heard it if you see one, you should get it, and keep it for good luck.. when your luck turns bad, spend and youll be all right again (since when my luck is bad it means i dont have $$ for lunch, it usually works out just right)
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
I'm usually buying stamps from the US Post Office machines and get the golden coins for change. They're still around... just that the US Govt. uses them.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:But to get people to use a coin instead of a bill, you generally need to pull the bill from circulation.
Yes, and do you know how hard it would be to stick a one dollar coin in some dancer's garter belt at the strip club? THAT'S the real reason the dollar bill will always be around...
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
whenever i get $2 bills, i flatten them out with an iron and then put them in the box of a japanese tea set i got from my girlfriend. i am a big thomas jefferson fan, and i have given people $5 bills for 2 $2 bills. i don't see them very often, though.
--jacob
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The Canadian $2 coin is silver in the middle and gold on the outside, isn't it? When did you come up with that design?
We've had �5 coins here, but only as commemerative coins (although they were legal tender). There was one for VE day a couple of years ago, I believe.
And if I may be allowed to step aside briefly and ask an obscure piece of trivia that no-one will know, what sort of dollar coins did the Professor give the girls in the Powerpuff Girls episode "Moral Decay" (where Buttercup kept knocking out bad-guys teeth in order to get money)?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I think they were Liberty dollars. I remember seeing a woman's image on them, but it wasn't ugly enough to be Susan B. Anthony.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote: They introduced the toonie, and the $2 bill was pulled from circulation.
But the $2 bill is still legal tender, I was in The Netherlands in 90 and left with a 5 gulder note and when I returned in 97 I tried to spend it but was told it's not legal tender anymore. Sometime between 90 and 97 they went to a 5 gulder coin and the notes were pulled and not legal anymore. I thought this was very strange. Anyway I still have a 5 gulder note and a bunch of Dutch coins and other bills that my be worth something someday.(when my grandchildren have children probably)
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
I was watching "secrets of the US mint" the other day and they said that there was copies of the Sacagewea dollar that had the correct tail side but had George Washington on the face side instead of Sacagewea. Apparently these are very valuable so keep an eye out.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Silverish on the outside with a goldish centre. Released at the start of 1996, I believe. Strangely enough, the 2 euro coin design was released shortly thereafter, also silverish on the outside with a goldish centre. Conspiracy, I say.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Hmm. There's also design similarities to our �2 coin, although the colours are reversed.
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