Yes, quarters can be confusing

[Ironclad Alibi]

SC # 3: What the... Mexican f***ers. I just came from taco bell and look at what they gave me!
Me: Quarters? (SC leaves. What an asshole. I feel sorry for the taco bell guys who had to put up with him.)

That reminds me. I have to go visit Taco Bell. Someone gave me five $2 bills last night.

Reference.

[Mr Hero]

I personally love those gold dollar coins. I am saving those, whenever I get them. Right now I have about $7.00. I also save the regular older dollar coins also. Not sure how much I have saved in those.

You would have been jealous of me at work today. I had a guest give me 12 dollar coins in exchange for quarters. Yesterday the same guest gave us 10.

[crashhelmet]

The coins that keeps throwing me off are the new nickels. Every time I see one, my first thought is it's a quarter. The size doesn't even register in my head at first glance.

CH

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

*blink*

W...what? Who has trouble recognizing a quarter? I've... I've never heard... OOOH, my head!

*finance-brain fizzles*

[MercenaryMuffin]

...someone didn't know what the state quarters looked like? Seriously?



I think the gene pool could use a little chlorine. Or a lot.

[Stormraven]

I've collected at least one of each of the State Quarters, and I'm on the lookout for the Territory Quarters that should be on their way. I'm also working on the Dollars - but you pretty much have to go to the bank to get them. Finding them in retail establishments is impossible.

Which is, of course, the reason these schemes fail. They don't stay in circulation because you'll almost never get them as change.

[protege]

Other than the 8 dollar coins I got for Christmas last year...I haven't seen any. But, I do have the state quarters, the various nickels, etc. Also in the collection are several variations of Canadian coins, some from Europe, etc.

[jjllbb]

The coins that keeps throwing me off are the new nickels. Every time I see one, my first thought is it's a quarter. The size doesn't even register in my head at first glance.

CH

Yes! I was in high school when those came out. I was so confused when i opened my register and they were just sitting in there. Why did they need to change the nickel anyway? sheesh.

Plus, i hope we never get rid of our dollar bills here. I love the dollar bill.

[edible_hat]

I've had a United Arab Emirates coin, as well as a British pound coin and even a Euro coin in there. Technically, we're not meant to accept them, but they look and feel like Aussie 5c or 10c coins, so we don't know until we've accepted it.

I've got a little jar that has foreign coins I've taken from work (swapped them for the coin they're supposed to be from my own money). It's got British pounds, euros, Canadian, American, Fijian and Singaporean cents (various denominations) and 5000 Vietnamese dong.

[icmedia]

I've had a bartender, upon receipt of several two-dollar bills in my payment of a tab, respond, "I'm sorry, but we don't accept Canadian money."

Of course, I am the type to ask my bank teller to include as many two-dollar bills in my withdrawal as they can...

[Mnemjian]

5000 Vietnamese dong

Snarf snarf! Oh... I think I read that wrong

[Andara Bledin]

Of course, I am the type to ask my bank teller to include as many two-dollar bills in my withdrawal as they can...

I do that myself.

Heck, I've got something like $30 in the golden dollars on top of my computer right now. It's my rainy day fund.

^-.-^

[bean]

I've been working with cash for a living for 9 years now, so I've seen pretty much everything currently in circulation (in the US).

Some of my coworkers haven't.

"Bean, someone just handed me a $2 bill and got pissed when I said it was fake, what do I do?" ... it's not fake, it's just rare.

"Bean, someone handed me a gold coin and said it was a dollar... but it's not paper" (same coworker - in her defense, she wasn't born or raised in the US)

I had one customer get downright bitchy when she handed me a handful of canadian coins and I refused to take them. She told me "But stores in Canada will take American currency!". I told her I could be fired for taking money that isn't legal tender in the US.

The same day, another customer handed me a couple of canadian pennies. I handed them back and told him "Sorry, those are canadian pennies, I can't take those". He shot back "Well SOMEONE gave them to me!" No shit? You didn't make them yourself?

For the record, I'm in Texas. Some places near the Canadian border may take both coins - we won't this far south.

[mattm04]

I had one customer looking for 76 cents. I got two state quarters and a penny. The custoemr kept passing over another state quarter with a different design. Didn't know whatever sate it was was real and though it was fake. Yes, New York IS in fact a state.

I have had some customers try pt pay with as much Canadian change as possible. I'm assuming that they got a few here and their and combined them and tried to dump them off on me. If it is one coin out of a bung AND it is really busy we will let it slide but when they try it on purpose, not going to happen.

Not as bad as the cashier that actually accepted over $40 of Canadian bills. The cashier was not that bright.

[mattm04]

I've got a little jar that has foreign coins I've taken from work (swapped them for the coin they're supposed to be from my own money). It's got British pounds, euros, Canadian, American, Fijian and Singaporean cents (various denominations) and 5000 Vietnamese dong.

I've got some Saddam era dinars from a friend in the Military.