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I went to my FLCE (Friendly Local Currency Exchange) and asked for some american currency for a day trip next week. Aside from the fact that he handed me c-bills, he also gave me two 1$ coins.

Are they in widespread use now? I got some in the past in commuter stations for the bus and such, but never like that...

What gives?

GO with it. Accept soda in the machines are $1.25-$1.75. I always had to ask specifically for $1 coins to add to my "ACH bank"

I like the dollar coins. Makes me fee like a pirate!

not really widely used but still accepted

They seem to be more common, but still unusual. They are accepted everywhere, and even most vending machines today.

Not very common, but they'll get accepted. Vending Machines may or may not accept them, depends on the age of the machine.

I do wish dollar coins became more common.

As everyone else has said, uncommon but still legal tender. Kind of like $2 bills.

A friend of mine always hits the bank to get a bunch out to take with him in costume to ren fairs.

Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

I've worked somewhere where we were told to reject the dollar coins, but that's the only place I've ever heard of doing that.

We've had the 1$ and 2$ coins for a while now, but I always got snickers in Texas when I talked about them. It aggravated me to no end to think I had more money in my wallet only to count through a bunch of 1$ notes and go "huh, 14 dollars, eh?"

Ah well, it's only 2$, I'm more worried about the c-bills. They are hardly accepted anywhere in Montreal, I hope the gas station takes them.

1$ coins are primarily used for vending machine change for things which usually start with 20$ bills being used.

Near me, it is usually making bus/subway passes (a day pass in DC for metro is 9$, which means a 20$ bill will expense 1$ coints as change)

The other place I get them often is stamp vending machines, (which is something like 7$ish for a book of stamps, so again, a 10$ or 20$ bill needs change)

I would say you should have no problem spending them. You may get people at retail who are simply confused, but they are legal tender and there is no reason not to be accepted.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

some "higher class" strip clubs have you use 2 dollar bills instead of ones. Odds are the person was affiliated with that industry.

Don't ask why I know this.

No, It was like we kept getting them for a bunch of different people. I tried to mark the bill to see if it would come back to us(Like we give it for change, they give it for paymeny for something else, they give the change etc.) to see if we kept just getting the same one. but my boss said no. I also got a 20$ bill with a love note written on it and a number.

Some author they had on NPR like six months back. Did that. Spent a 20 and tracked it for almost a year I think. Wrote an entire book on its travel......

I like haveing a half dozen on me at all time so my pockets jingle like a big shot when I walk by homeless people.


I only get them when a vending machine makes change for a five dollar bill.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

some "higher class" strip clubs have you use 2 dollar bills instead of ones. Odds are the person was affiliated with that industry.

Don't ask why I know this.

Strip clubs do not, however, think its funny when you and your bros being in $150 in dollar coins.

That is because they know you will............No im not going there

Were the coins you got Sacagaweas? I used to get those at a job I worked at in the vending machines. I haven't seen them in a while, but I always liked them, they're good looking coins and have have a pleasing heft to them.

 deadmeat85 wrote:
I like the dollar coins. Makes me fee like a pirate!

Exactly!


edit: Just realized you're Canadian, you have no idea what a Sacagawea is, any more than I can identify the denominations of.... seashells or beaver pelts or whatever it is you guys use for money in the frigid northern wasteland you call home. It looks like this:

 cincydooley wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

some "higher class" strip clubs have you use 2 dollar bills instead of ones. Odds are the person was affiliated with that industry.

Don't ask why I know this.

Strip clubs do not, however, think its funny when you and your bros being in $150 in dollar coins.

Yeah that's when you go from "making it rain" to "making it hail".

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

some "higher class" strip clubs have you use 2 dollar bills instead of ones. Odds are the person was affiliated with that industry.

Don't ask why I know this.

I think the track uses $2 bills as well.

They're a rarity, but technically legal tender, so no, you didn't get 'the shaft'. If someone gives you a 2000 yen bill, you got the shaft though. Same with five yen coins.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, Most soda machines will give $ coins as change now if you use a five or something.
My work we see about 2 a month. Although something weird, One week we got it to where we got a bunch of 2$ bills for payments. It was weird

some "higher class" strip clubs have you use 2 dollar bills instead of ones. Odds are the person was affiliated with that industry.

Don't ask why I know this.

For whatever reason, metal scrap yards are another place where $2 bills are commonly used. They also pay with the $1 coins a lot as well.

Uncommon, but legal, as others have said.

I know the Tooth Fairy at my house uses dollar coins.

I kinda wish we'd switch to a coin-centric system over paper money.

The best use I've ever had for them (indeed, they seem made for
this) is at the laundromat. The one I regularly went to for years
fed them out at their change machines.

I used to go to the bank and get $2 bills and susan B. Anthony dollars to mess with people. Then I got old and lazy.

 Ouze wrote:
Were the coins you got Sacagaweas? I used to get those at a job I worked at in the vending machines. I haven't seen them in a while, but I always liked them, they're good looking coins and have have a pleasing heft to them.

 deadmeat85 wrote:
I like the dollar coins. Makes me fee like a pirate!

Exactly!


edit: Just realized you're Canadian, you have no idea what a Sacagawea is, any more than I can identify the denominations of.... seashells or beaver pelts or whatever it is you guys use for money in the frigid northern wasteland you call home. It looks like this:

Yes, I got one of those, and a Lady Liberty one. I'm not that averse to using Google, I just like poking you guys.

I love it when Europeans come to my store, and throw a fit when trying to find the right coins. I even had one ask me why we just didn't use Euros and be done with it.

We don't have pennies anymore (used to be a pair of maple leaves)
Nickels have a beaver on them
Dimes have the Bluenose (a sailboat)
Quarters have a cariboo (not a moose)
Loonies have a loony (who'd've thunk)
And toonies have a polar bear, a group of penguins, a T-rex and a mad cow. Yup, all of them.

You guys get caribou and all we get is dead mostly white people?

Jealous.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I went to my FLCE (Friendly Local Currency Exchange) and asked for some american currency for a day trip next week. Aside from the fact that he handed me c-bills, he also gave me two 1$ coins.

Are they in widespread use now? I got some in the past in commuter stations for the bus and such, but never like that...

What gives?

Where in the US are you going? $1 "Sacagawea" coins are incredibly common in the Bay Area of CA. Or they were 15 years ago...

It's just a day trip for my fiancee's birthday. We want to hit Plattsburgh and Burlington for the antiques. So, Hudson Valley & New England.

cue the "but then I got Cialis, and our antiquing just stopped" jokes.

Truth is, we can't go too far away, we need to manage our store, which we decided to close on mondays because she'd die of exhaustion otherwise. But come Tuesday morning, it's back in the saddle.