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Author Topic: Interesting Geographic Facts Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-17-2005 07:48 AM                        I use all three on a regular basis. I buy a roll of .50 cent coins each week from my local bank. They also save $2.00 bills for me and when they get 10 I buy them every month or so. When I buy stamps I get the 1.00 coin and I have no trouble using them here in New York. I also have a great collection on the State quarters. Daryl Since Tim Horton took over all of the Bess Eaton stores in Rhode Island I can now buy Butter Tarts when I go up there. You can buy one tart for .80 cents. So you spend your dollar coin and get back either twenty pennies or four nickles or two dimes and other variations of the 20 cent make up. Thanks for asking. [ 11-17-2005, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 11-17-2005 07:53 AM                        $2 bills suck. You can't buy f$#k-all with them, and they cost more than $2 coins. What really sucks is pennies, nickles and dimes. What's worse is having to carry around 1 penny so that you don't end up with four more. I'm with Bob... I'd take a $1 coin over a $1 bill any day. I wonder how many butter tarts you could buy with a $1 coin.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2005 08:25 AM                        Our $1 coin looks almost identical at a glance as out quarter dollar coin. Completely retarded. Our $1 coins used to be much larger and were called "silver dollars" or some hunk of nonsense like that.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-17-2005 08:27 AM                     Sorry William...most casinos (and more seem to be doing it everyday) are going to slotless slots...well no coin slots that is...they have bill changers...for payouts, you get a receipt that will either work in another "slot" or you can take it to the cashier to get your dough. The Kennedy half-dollar is still in the US currency. It is probably my favorite US coin. I have no problem with the penny, nickle, dime or quarter-dollar other than the government changing the look of them...there is no need for that. I had no problem with the Eisenhower dollar....aka Silver Dollar. The more recent attempts at dollar coins suck...way too close to a quarter in size and smaller than the half-dollar (I've never truely been a fan of the dime being so small...especially as compared to the nickle). If the mint went back to the Eisenhower dollar I would be all for it...however the reason it never caught on was its size...you KNEW you had a dollar in your pocket with those babies. I too feel that the $2 bill is a wonderful currency and wish it had caught on...it will cut down on the $1 notes and is more in keeping with inflation. I'd like the $25 bill to come into existance...even at the expense of the $20 (sorry Pres. Jackson).  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 11-17-2005 02:48 PM                     quote: Travis Hubrig quote: Bob MaarThere are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. Has anyone tested this? I don't believe it. Link  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-17-2005 05:01 PM                        quote: Bob Maar All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. I took out a five bill with a date of 2003 and with a magnifying glass only found half of the states listed... could have been 24 or 26, my bill was pretty wasted and folded so many times... but there was not all fifty states, unless they were printed in nanotype.. Ciao  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-17-2005 05:19 PM                        The Bank of England stopped issuing £1 notes decades ago in favour of coins, but Scotland still has them. That makes it a real pain visiting Scotland, because businesses in England and Wales and are not legally obliged to accept Scottish notes, and most won't (although I understand that the reverse is not true: Bank of England notes are legal tender in Scotland, and Scottish businesses must accept them). The same applies in Northern Ireland - they issue their own banknotes which are not legal tender anywhere else. The IRA found this out the hard way when it carried out this bank robbery, only to find that it couldn't launder the cash, because it was worthless outside Northern Ireland (that story reminded me in the scene from Palookaville in which a gang of would-be jewellery store robbers discover that they've accidentally broken into a bakery). So if you take money out of a Scottish (or NI) ATM or hand over a high value Bank of England note in a shop and get Scottish change, you've got to get rid of it before heading south. On my last visit that involved consuming several large single malts at Aberdeen Airport: the barman in the departure lounge there must have thought I was a right dipso!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-17-2005 05:23 PM                  Yes there is a 50-cent piece... in the military in Vietnam, we called that a cheap piece of ass...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-17-2005 05:25 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer Our $1 coin looks almost identical at a glance as out quarter dollar coin. Maybe the new dollar coin hasn't made it to Colorado yet. It is gold in color, is thicker than the quarter, slightly bigger than a quarter, has a smooth edge, and has Sacajawea on it. Nobody will use them, so you don't see them very often.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 11-17-2005 05:47 PM                     The banknotes issued in Scotland are cheques issued by private companies (a throwback to when banks throughout the UK issued their own banknotes). £1 (1 GBP) notes are rarely used now (only one Scottish bank) issues them with £ 1 and £ 2 notes becoming the most used notes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_banknotes  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 11-17-2005 06:02 PM                     has anyone seen a $1,000.00 bill? Are they still in circulation?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-17-2005 06:03 PM                  ...an example of a 50-cent piece... half-dollar: ... The biggest bill I've ever seen was a $10,000 bill which I think is no longer in circulation. I don't think they made anything bigger...  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-17-2005 06:25 PM                     quote: Leo Enticknap The same applies in Northern Ireland - they issue their own banknotes which are not legal tender anywhere else. I'm not sure about that Leo, I often end up with NI £5 notes and use them in shops here. I also accept them at work and I don't believe the cinema has any bother banking them. If I do get any hassle in shops I point out that it is 'sterling' and last time I checked, NI was part of the UK. I mean you may well be correct that it's not technically legal tender, just pointing out that in my experience most places will take them. As for the scottish pound note, they are getting rarer up here.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2005 07:00 PM                        Has anyone ever noticed that US coins do not have their value stated anywhere on them? The quarter comes the closest by saying "Quarter dollar" as does the half dollar.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-17-2005 08:12 PM                     quote: Phil Hill The biggest bill I've ever seen was a $10,000 bill which I think is no longer in circulation. I don't think they made anything bigger... Visit this page to see the $100,000 bill, or rather "gold certificate." It was in circulation only for a short time, and was illegal for anyone outside of the Federal Treasury to own. The $100 bill is currently the largest note in circulation. Notes higher than that have not been produced since World War II.  |  IP: Logged

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