These aren’t rare or unseen. All legal US money
These aren’t rare in the sense that everybody has one they keep as a collectible. If I went down to 7/11 and tried to buy something with it they’d give me a funny look.
no they wouldnt. its money. i work at a gas station we get these all the time
I don’t know,.clerks have called the cops over $2 paper bills.
The vending machine at my job gives change in dollar coins, and the Ohio turnpike does the same. They are fairly common, just people dont like to handle change is all.
I recall in NYC for a while, dollar coins were known as metrocard change from when they first started installing the Metrocard Vending Machines.
Thank you; I didn’t know that. You do have a rather big country and I still sort of wonder if it is universally recognized. Again, just going by never having seen them in movies. Maybe United Statesians aren’t just fictional characters in movies. We’ll never know.
yeah we still mostly use dollar bills but we do have dollar coins and have had dollar coins in circulation for a long while predating these versions even.
It’s so cool to me. I wonder if I am the only one not from US who finds this a bit mind blowing. What other secrets are you keeping?
We also have a two dollar bill that is rarely seen. So rare in fact that I’ve read stories of cashiers calling the cops on someone because they don’t even realize it’s legal tender.
In Portland Oregon (most strip clubs per capita in the country) it is traditional to use $2 bills instead of singles. It is extremely common to see two dollar bills in Oregon, I would bet a majority of two’s in circulation stay in the PNW.
Here in Cambodia we have a dual currency system: you can pay in dollars or riel and get your change in a mixture of currencies.
The $2 note is seen in businesses, especially money changing ones (from dollar to riel or vice versa), on display as a good luck sign.
United Statesians
You can just say American.
No offense intended. I have been to a lot of countries in the Americas and the US (despite being rather big) is not really a place I go to. So when I specify like that, it is from my own experience (and—you know—actual geography and stuff) and I am a little bit sorry to have apparently offended.
Edit: that sounded sarcastic because it was a bit, but really, I didn’t intend to offend. Sorry, let’s be friends.
It’s not about offence, it’s about how ridiculous it sounds.
My friend, I am open to suggestions. “American” with like 100-ish countries in it doesn’t really narrow it down for me. Peace and love and all that stuff.
Mate, there is literally only one country with America in it’s name.
Furthermore in a 2 continent Americas model, there is no other peoples American could refer to because the people from the continents are either North American or South American.
Shit if anything, United Statesians could refer to the United Mexican States. So you’re making it confusing when it wasn’t before.
How about ‘Muricans?
Edit: /s
My friend, I used words with no intention to offend nor dive into pedantry. I am sorry you find it worth going on about. “America”. There, take it. Please have a good rest of your day, friend.
Lol… I’ve only ever seen the Sacajawea coin in the US.
i have a jackson one and a polk one floating around my backpack
Cool. They’re still damn rare.
lol
That actually makes a lot of cents.
I don’t get it
These are legal U.S. tender, minted in the U.S. Not common in the U.S. but still valid.
Pay attention to your other coins though. Ecuador does mint its own coins that match the American ones identically (1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 centavos) and also has some older 1 sucre coins that match these 1 dollar coins. Those would not be legal tender in the U.S., I’m pretty sure.
I have these supposed $6 left over. If they turn out to be fake, I will shed a tear and move on. But thank you.
I was just giving some info… I’m not saying they’re fake or anything. I actually found it quite interesting to have the Ecuadorian versions of the coins.
I am finding this all very interesting. Apparently people from the US are not surprised by this at all and my foreignness is on full display.
Naw all good. To be fair, how many of us in the US know Ecuador uses American dollars?? I had no idea so I’m glad you posted. This is a cool tidbit of info!
I gotta say I’m not used to seeing any dollars
Movies, TV Shows, and Youtube videos use US dollars a lot.
Local bar is still cash only. I use change for pool tables quite often or if I ever take the bus. Maybe I am just getting older but cash seems like it is still around everywhere.
All of those things around here take cards now. I guess you just live in an area that hasn’t changed in a while.
I assumed the person was non-American
Let’s pretend it’s because you have gone all electric.
Yeah he uses 5V 3A discharges to pay. Longer discharge, bigger payment.
Ecuadorians are very touchy about the condition of their paper bills. I tried to pay for a Panama hat with some cash that included a slightly torn but fully in tact $10, and the shop owner refused. As such, more durable dollar coins, which were minted by the US but never really caught on, are quite popular.
Interestingly they do mint their own coins, with Ecuadorian half dollar, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_centavo_coins
We should’ve discontinued the dollar bill so that these coins would get used in the US, too.
I disagree. I hate carrying any coins, while dollars of any denomination fit nicely in my wallet.
I have a hunch that if we were to swap to these instead of paper dollars for $1, prices would go up simply because retailers would you d everything up to the nearest $5 increment.
Canadian here, between electronic payments and coins being more durable than paper or polymer money, retailers don’t have any incentive to charge a less competitive price.
Awesome job on killing the penny up there! Wish we could do that in the US.
We need to kill the nickel too.
Isn’t the wallet thing kinda backwards though? Like, it’s not as if we all had wallets perfectly sized to carry this kind of paper money before the paper dollar was introduced.
I figure that if coins had been the predominant form of currency for at least the past century, we’d have a great way to carry coins other than a pouch, and paper money would be inconvenient.
I use a wallet phone case, there is no good way for a coin pouch for that.
Your pants pockets.
That’s less convenient than one place, sorry
Plebs without sacks of coins 🙄
I lived in Ecuador for a bit and it’s pretty terrible when you pay for a $5 item with a twenty dollar bill and the cashier hands you back fifteen of these coins, which has happened to me on multiple occasions.
Just put those coins into your adorable coin purse.
Nothing like clicking on the large X to close an ad video on the web page, but it doesn’t close, even after pressing the X multiple times. :/
They are few alternatives to fandom but nothing that comes close to fandom’s popularity.
Unfortunately the web has become a place where you need to download ublock origin and learn to block specific elements.
Unfortunately the web has become a place where you need to download ublock origin
The irony is that I do have it installed/using it. It’s just the video player puts an X there but ignores when you click on the X.
Try noscript (firefox only)
It does get too complicated for my tastes. Sometimes you have to right click elements and block them manually. Sometimes you have to create a filter or you lose scrolling like on this site:
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/qmiq1b/cant_scroll_after_blocking_signup_popups/
I think you mean “pretty fuckin sweet!” Coin currency master race!
This has been studied. The US uses a higher quality paper that lasts an average of 7 years. So it is actually cheaper than minting coins. In other countries that switched to coins, singles only lasted a year or two.
There is nothing stopping people from using coins now. People just don’t like them.
They’re also heavy in your pocket and don’t fit in a standard cashier’s drawer. There aren’t enough slots.
The real good idea would be getting rid of pennies and nickels. Those are only useful for giving stores a few extra cents in profit. They set prices at $4.99 instead of $5 so you buy more. Without pennies, they’d have to set the price at $4.90 and lose 9 cents.
Yeah, the US once has a half penny. Adjusted for inflation, it is worth more than a nickel is today when it was eliminated.
But I don’t think that will give us a 9 cent discount.
Similar with Montenegro, they dont have official currency but they use euro as de facto currency
I don’t live in the US. I have only ever seen the dollar bills in movies. Maybe these coins are actually normal to y’all but I found it fascinating.
They’re common in vending machines, libraries, ticket machines for bus/train, etc. as change because they’re easier to distribute than single dollar bills by a machine
I’m starting to feel like an ass for not knowing this.
You’re fine - I grew up in a rural state, and I thought they were super rare until I lived in a city where the public transit system gave them as change.
Nah, I’m an ass. But this is so interesting. Thank you for sharing.
No way;
They are normal at Renaissance faires for people who like to carry a sack of “gold”.
I am learning things. Thank you.
I work with handling money on the daily. I’d rate them as uncommon but not rare. We will see a handful of them at least every other day.
Nope, I haven’t seen one since the early 2000s, when they rolled out Sacajawea dollars and then stopped a few years later because boomers were afraid they’d confuse them with quarters.
They didn’t stop these still around.
They were also hoping vending machine companies would use them but few did.
Susan B. Anthony dollar has entered the chat
WHH is maybe the funniest President’s face to put on a coin
What do you mean? He was the best president in history.
I have a lot of those “gold” dollar coins. For a long time after they came out, I’d ask the cashiers at stores and banks to trade me paper dollars for whatever gold coins they had available. Many times I had to dig into my stash to get by, so it’s not like I’m sitting on a massive horde of them or anything, but I have about a hundred of them.
Well lookie who we have here… Mr Moneybags.
Yeah, me and my 100 $1 coins that I collected over ten years, sitting so pretty.
At least it’s not all green
Panama is the same
Sure, when you hand the cashier some US dollar coins, nobody bats an eye, but when I hand the cashier a stack of Australian $1 notes, everybody loses their minds!
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Looks like someone got a nice vacation with all those credit card points… lol bet they only switched because of that promotion
