Random memory

[pne]

I remember occasionally getting DM 10 coins when they were issued occasionally, then using them to pay for stuff. I wondered how many people would refuse them since they're not that common (and most people save them rather than spending them).

I don't think anyone ever refused them, but at one place they were visibly unsure about where to place the coin in the cash register, and in another, the person said, "Don't you have anything else? Those coins are too special to just spend them on stuff".

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[bacskocky.livejournal.com]

two dollar bills that I get while at work go into teh same spot as the 100s and 50s because there's no place else for them...

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

Someone once told me a bus driver had refused to accept a DM 5 note. I'm not sure what was more unusual, paying with a DM 10 coin or with a DM 5 note.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'd say DM 10 coin.

At least in my memory, DM 5 notes were unusual but not actually rare, whereas I'd say that DM 10 coins were very rare in circulation.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

at one place they were visibly unsure about where to place the coin in the cash register, and in another, the person said, "Don't you have anything else? Those coins are too special to just spend them on stuff".

I had that happen to me a few weeks ago when I paid for something with our $1 golden Sacagawea dollars. The train-ticket vending machines in my state give them as change, so I'd bought a $5 ticket for the airport monorail*, paid with a $20 bill, and gotten 15 Sacagawea dollars in change (actually I think it was 14 Sacagawea dollars and one Susan B. Anthony dollar). Then when I got to Atlanta, I bought a soda and paid with two Sacagawea dollars, and the guy said "Are you sure you want to spend these, and not keep them?" I told him that I had thirteen more in my wallet. I guess they're less common in Georgia than in New Jersey?!

*Hard to explain—because I have a monthly train pass, I can get to the airport train station for free; but then the monorail from the stop to the terminal is $5. Whereas if you buy a one-way airport ticket, the monorail is included.

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen more than three in one place. I think most of us here in Indiana (yay, corn!) horde the few we find. Not me... I just haven't spent my one because I'm not sure anybody will take it...

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Geez, is there anywhere in the US that *doesn't* grow corn? It's one of our major exports (though not as big as tomatoes and eggplant—we grow 1/3 of the world's supply). *g* Anyway.

I have one squirreled away somewhere, but mostly I use them in vending machines or on the bus—the bus is $1.10, and it does take bills but it's a lot easier to drop two coins into the slot instead. (Though now I have a monthly bus pass so I use that.) I love dollar coins, they're so much more convenient than bills, even though they're quite heavy. I've never found anywhere that won't take them.