[GTOnly70]

Originally Posted by SRR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGD84j0_t8

lol

Dumb as hell.

[dataway]

Originally Posted by Old Goat Racer

Well dataway had the right numbers, but in the wrong order.
The amount was $86.32.
Pretty scary .

No xtra charge for the entertainment.

Jeez, my dyslexia strikes again!

[Drag Star Le Mans]

Originally Posted by Old Goat Racer

I heard the banks needed some change, so I gathered up a few pennies I had laying around. 50 + lbs.

Reading thru this at work got me thinking of all the jars of pennies I have. Going to check in with my bank and see if they have a coin machine. I never trusted the coin star machines and the stories about them don't surprise me.

[dataway]

I tend to roll mine up and drop off with a deposit once a month. Basically I consider it a service to our country, the tax payers pay millions of dollars every year to replace the change that we stash away. My truck ash tray fills up every couple of months, as does my household coin cup. A few years ago I bought whole boxes of coin rollers that will last a life time, and I have the plastic things to help you roll them.

Do your civic duty, cash in your coins Hey, these days that's all it takes to be a "Hero"

[F ROCK]

lawsuit against TD Bank for their coin counting machines.
https://www.courierpostonline.com/st...ent/429290001/

[Mister Pontiac]

Originally Posted by SRR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGD84j0_t8

lol

I don't get it. What was the point?

[SRR]

Originally Posted by Mister Pontiac

I don't get it. What was the point?

He was being a jerk. He basically punished the people who had nothing to do with his fine.

[unruhjonny]

oh, I would have had so much fun going through that box of pennies

I think my kids (3yo & 5yo) will be the only ones in their grades to know what the following are:
-pennies (recalled from circulation in 2012 in Canada)
-cassettes & players
-records & players
-cd's & players
-rotary phone

[GTOnly70]

Originally Posted by unruhjonny

-pennies (recalled from circulation in 2012 in Canada)

That was smart. I don't know why the US mint keeps wasting time and money with pennies. Round .01, .02 down and .03, .04 up. Simple. This coin has outlived its usefulness by at least 3 decades.

[BOB VIDAN]

I went to a local hardware store to buy something the other day and after following all the dam_ed arrows on where to pay, the guy rang it up, $6.69. He said that will be $7.00 as we don't have change. I said no, it's $6.69. He said you'll have to come up with the exact amount or pay $7.00. I said no, you priced it to make change required, so either sell it for that price or I'll leave. He wouldn't, so I did, right out the door without the item.

[carbking]

Originally Posted by poncho-mike

I think coins will be made obsolete within my lifetime. What do you guys think?

If they do, it will be because of the stupidity of the American public!

The Presidential dollars were issued for two reasons: (1) to sell to collectors, (2) to significantly reduce the cost of printing dollar bills.

There were not well accepted by the public. Supposedly, there is a warehouse with well over a billion (with a "b") that were never released.

There have been several articles on how much money would be saved each year in printing costs, as the coins are cheaper to produce, and last significantly longer. Plus, the government would have less cost in shipping dog-eared bills to a destruction site, and burning them.

Of course, you didn't state your age, and how long you expect to live

Jon.

[dataway]

I'm in Europe every year and have gotten very used to the Euro coins up to 2 Euro. Seems to be a pretty efficient system.

[Drag Star Le Mans]

Canada has the loonie, $1 coin and toonie $2 coin. That's what they call them?

[Radman]

Originally Posted by carbking

If they do, it will be because of the stupidity of the American public!

The Presidential dollars were issued for two reasons: (1) to sell to collectors, (2) to significantly reduce the cost of printing dollar bills.

There were not well accepted by the public. Supposedly, there is a warehouse with well over a billion (with a "b") that were never released.

There have been several articles on how much money would be saved each year in printing costs, as the coins are cheaper to produce, and last significantly longer. Plus, the government would have less cost in shipping dog-eared bills to a destruction site, and burning them.

Of course, you didn't state your age, and how long you expect to live

Jon.

The big problem with the dollar coins was the physical size. They were almost an exact match for the quarter. If they were a different size, I think that the acceptance would be much greater.

[GTOnly70]

Originally Posted by Radman

The big problem with the dollar coins was the physical size. They were almost an exact match for the quarter. If they were a different size, I think that the acceptance would be much greater.

The main reason they went with the smaller coin was the resounding failure of the big Eisenhower dollar in the '70's.

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by Old Goat Racer

Well dataway had the right numbers, but in the wrong order.
The amount was $86.32.
Pretty scary .

No xtra charge for the entertainment.

So you didn't even have 50 pounds (50 pounds would have been $90.00...

[unruhjonny]

Originally Posted by Radman

The big problem with the dollar coins was the physical size. They were almost an exact match for the quarter. If they were a different size, I think that the acceptance would be much greater.

my opinion;
they have seemed to fail, because this wasn't a forced acceptance.
they are the same size as the dollar coin which preceeded it, but a different colour/composition;
they are the same size as our dollar coin, and the size tends to them not being a nusiance to pile up in your pocket.

When out $1 bill was phased out for the coin, the bills were being sent to be de-minted, and banks were only giving out the coins - so we had no choice...
The same thing was done when our $2 bill was replaced in 1996.

What I don't get, is why the $2 bill is still an oddity in the 'states;
it makes sense, and reduces wallet thickness.

[webfoot]

Originally Posted by Drag Star Le Mans

Canada has the loonie, $1 coin and toonie $2 coin. That's what they call them?

Looney and a Twoonie is correct.

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by 400 4spd.

Pay the dollar amount with cash and make them put the change on your debit card.

Someone give this scout another merit badge ! lol

In other local news
At our Walmart, the self-checkouts will only accept plastic now.
Have to wait in a cashier line if paying with Money.

Lack of coin stock to stock all the self-checkouts.

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by webfoot

Looney and a Twoonie is correct.

It's a TOONIE, not at Twoonie.



My wife did consulting work in Manitoba, Alberta and British Colombia for over 10 years and we had several vacations together in Canada - Churchill, Manitoba to see the Polar Bears, dogsledding in Canmore, AB, Calgary Stampede, horseback riding (and 3 cattle drives) on a 6,000 acre ranch east of Clairesholm, took our daughter and grandson to Frank's Slide, the Colombia Icefield's, the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and Waterton Provincial Park all in Alberta.

I've spent many a loonie and a toonie...