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spindoctor43
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| Posted: Aug Sat 09, 2008 4:53 am |
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As a joke, some years ago I went to the bank and obtained 100 $1.00 new bills in serial number order. Took them home and cut a piece of cardboard the size of the bills and obtained some adhesive like that use to secure paper on paper tablets and glued them together in a pad.
The next time I went to the store , when I paid for my purchase, I whipped out the pad of one dollar bills and proceeded to tear them off, one a time. You should have seen the look on the clerks face, but they were accepted with no questions asked.
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butch
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| there was no 3 dollar bill but there was a 3 dollar gold piece and also a 3 cent piece if i remember right.butch |
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wrnewton
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What's fun is to pay in a manner to reduce your change back: e.g., your purchase is $3.27, so from what you have in your pocket you give the clerk a $5.00 bill, a nickel, and two cents. Before they had spit-em-back cash registers, clerks had to have a brain to figure that out.
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Curt Reed
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Rodney- yes I remember the Billy Carter beer. Horrible stuff, but I managed to save an empty can and it is around here somewhere. I also have an empty can of Lucky Lager "Salutes USA" 1776-1976 from the bicentinental year of 1976. Mainly a white can with red and blue writing on it and the flag.
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mgk920
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Even more fun than the $2 note and the snot-nosed food service nobodies is to TRACK the travels of those notes!
http://www.wheresgeorge.com
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RadioNut39
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Did'nt the US Navy once pay their men in $2 dollar bills? 
Are they still available?
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panther
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When I was a kid, we would take $2.00 bills to the local carnivals, or any really busy business, hand them the bill, upside down, and once in a great while get change for a $5.00 bill.
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gary rabbitt
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Hi,
Yes Mike, there was a $3 gold coin.
$3 bill issued from the Bank of Cairo, IL
The Bank of Cairo issued a $3 bill, at Kaskaskia, in 1840. Larger image of $10 bill. The Bank and the town of Cairo were incorporated a few months before the State of Illinois in 1818, but it was the decade before the Civil War when things began to perk for Cairo.
On the Where's George site, we have found a few bills marked, and have entered them into the database.
Our bills had made it from the West Coast to TN in about 66 days, showing the route along the way. Kind of a neat, cheap thrill.
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Gusnaz
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| Posted: Aug Sat 09, 2008 7:51 pm |
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| Quote: | | Did'nt the US Navy once pay their men in $2 dollar bills? |
Yes they did. Back in the late 50's I was stationed out of Long Beach and would go to L A on a weekend to see my girl. She asked me to pick up a few things on the way there, so I stopped at a small market near where she lived and got a cpl things and the total came under $2.00. I handed the cashier a 2 dollar bill. She didn't look twice and gave me change for a 20 dollar bill. I said, I'm sorry you have made a mistake, to which she replied nastily, "I don't make mistakes" I said but, but, and she cut me off and again says she don't make mistakes. So I left with 18 extra dollars.
Two weeks later I am on the same deal, stop and pick up something on the way to the girlfriends place. I stopped at the same market and got the needed items and the same cashier was there. I handed her another 2 dollar bill. She stares at me and then takes the bill and places it under the coin tray and gives me the correct change in coin. She never asked for the 18 bucks back or said a word about it, but she new. I wanted to say something about her never making mistakes but kept quiet.
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Howard Griffin
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Also the Army in WW2 paid in cash. You stood in line and recvd what was left of your $21 a month as a PVT1. The mess Sgt took out a "donation" for broken table ware, the Supply Sgt for what I don''t remember and the the 1st Sgt had his "slush fund" by the time you signed the payroll as recvd you barely had enough for a 5th of Three Feathers and a hand of Poker. 1942 changed that to a bit more and yes the Paymaster used $2 bills.
Ah nostalgia!
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bgadow
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I've developed a reputation now at the local bank. I'll take all the dollar coins, fifty cent pieces and $2 bills. Most of them I spend for lunch, as the lady I buy from several times a week saves them or gives them to her grandkids. Others I spend at the flea market. You can get some odd looks from people-surprising how many folks still haven't seen the "gold" dollars. A couple weeks ago I got an Eisenhower bicentennial dollar, which is unique but as far as I know holds no special value. I spent it that day for lunch and the next time I was in the bank the tellers were chuckling-the same coin had showed up in the till at another little store in town, so I got it back again! I told them I would have to engrave it so it could be tracked like "wheresgeorge". This time I spent it with a flea market vendor from out of town so I suspect it won't pass my way again.
The only time I ever caught any slack with money came from paying a bridge toll with a fifty. I wanted to slap that arrogant s.o..... after the comment he made. Wish I got his name. |
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Ken G
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Thats pretty funny . I have some 2$ bills . I need to get one out and raise hell  |
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ve1arn
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Hi all,
I can remember many years ago being told the joke about the guy who printed a $15 bill and was going to try and pass it.
His buddy figured that he didn't have a chance. But the chap told him he was going to go to the local candy store owned by the little old lady with the real thick glasses just in case.
He went in while his buddy waited outside, and sure enough, out of the store comes the chap with a bag of candy.
The friend couldn't believe that he actually passed the $15 bill and commented, "You got 65 cents worth of candy, and she gave you change too? I don't believe it!"
The chap put his bag of candy down and brought out the change and said, "see for yourself, here's my change. Two 7's and a thirty five cent piece!" |
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HuggyBear
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| R-520/URR wrote: | | HuggyBear wrote: | | Canada has the right idea, and I have to congratulate our neighbours. |
You should try putting $20 worth of loonies and toonies in your pocket, gets very heavy!! Plus the jingling of the money attracts panhandlers faster than flies to manure!
But the coins do last longer, and the mint has come up with some neat designs on them. |
I wouldn't carry $20 worth of change with me anyway. $20 worth of singles REALLY stuffs my wallet out ($2 bills are uncommon here, as you probably guessed - I don't think they've been printed since 1976). $20 worth of any sort of change would be heavy.
Loonies - it would only take 20 of them to be $20, and only ten Toonies. I don't remember - how do the loonies and toonies compare in size to the quarter? The Canadian penny / nickel / dime / quarter are close enough to the size of their American counterparts. The American Susan B. Anthony dollar / Sacajawea dollar / presidential dollar are about 2 m/m larger in diameter, about 1 m/m thicker and noticably heavier - but still lighter and smaller than four quarters.
Some years ago, I bought a pack of cigarettes from a little gas station where they were $1.25 / pack. I gave the immigrant clerk a quarter and a Susan B. Anthony dollar. He thought I gave him 50 cents, I explained, no, that one is a dollar. He thought it was the coolest thing ever! Pulled out his own wallet and put my quarter and a dollar of his in the register, and kept the Susan B.
I went back a few days later - he remembered me and asked me if I had any more.
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TJM70
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I used to tip with $2 bills...people liked them (when they knew they were real) and often thought I had given them something special / valuable.
I was at the flea market once and I had a bunch I had gotten at the bank & I was using for change...word got around and soon a guy came up to see if he could "buy" them from me...I said "Sure...$3 apiece." |
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