For many years now my b-i-l gives each of us two $2 bills as part of our
Christmas gifts. Over the years we've spent them at various places. So
far no one has questioned them.

Part of the reason the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins failed was that
they were too close in size to quarters. The machines would reject them
when the customer would try to use one in place of a quarter, and few
machines were set up to handle them even when the price of the product
was more than a dollar. The new generation of machines accept bills and
can even give change, so there is little need for the dollar coins.

Yes, I do still have some silver dollars.



On 8/3/19 19:01, Rob via Groups.Io wrote:

$2 bills is real money.

I used to keep a lot of them when I was driving because my turnpike toll
one way to work was $2.55  so I would wrap a 50 cent piece and a nickel
into a folded triangle made of  a $2 bill and hand it to the toll booth
guy and drive off with him thinking I short changed him every time.
He would look at one paper bill and two coins and be pretty certain that
could not be $2.55 and he would hit the alarm bell.... the one that said
...we get to chase you for skipping the toll.


I would also use the $2 bills to tip the waitress at the Chinese buffet.

And of course she would run around showing everybody in the kitchen the
fake money someone passed her....

and then the owners approached me and scolded me for fake money.

It took a while but they figured it out.










On 03/08/2019 12:52 PM, Stephen Myers via Groups.Io wrote:

I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they
usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different
occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer
here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried
to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard
time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

Guys I have deleted messages about two dollar bills all day long.  I enjoy the group for qrp etc....but maybe this two dollar bill thing is going on a little to long. 

Mark

KA8ONW

Ah, shoot, I was enjoying reading the posts about $2 bills and war pennies. Since my CW is awful, I sometimes don't read posts that are specifically about CW. I just delete 'em and go on to the next post. Might be a thin group, if we don't ever widen our conversations. Just my 2 cents (shiny new shield pennies).

Donald KB5PWL

On 3/8/2019 8:47 PM, m p via Groups.Io wrote:

Guys I have deleted messages about two dollar bills all day long.  I enjoy the group for qrp etc....but maybe this two dollar bill thing is going on a little to long. 

Mark

KA8ONW

Guys I have deleted messages about two dollar bills all day long.  I enjoy the group for qrp etc....but maybe this two dollar bill thing is going on a little to long. 

Mark

KA8ONW

On Mar 8, 2019, at 8:22 PM, David Lininger <kb0zke@...> wrote:

For many years now my b-i-l gives each of us two $2 bills as part of our
Christmas gifts. Over the years we've spent them at various places. So
far no one has questioned them.

Part of the reason the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins failed was that
they were too close in size to quarters. The machines would reject them
when the customer would try to use one in place of a quarter, and few
machines were set up to handle them even when the price of the product
was more than a dollar. The new generation of machines accept bills and
can even give change, so there is little need for the dollar coins.

Yes, I do still have some silver dollars.

On 8/3/19 19:01, Rob via Groups.Io wrote:
$2 bills is real money.

I used to keep a lot of them when I was driving because my turnpike toll
one way to work was $2.55 so I would wrap a 50 cent piece and a nickel
into a folded triangle made of a $2 bill and hand it to the toll booth
guy and drive off with him thinking I short changed him every time.
He would look at one paper bill and two coins and be pretty certain that
could not be $2.55 and he would hit the alarm bell.... the one that said
...we get to chase you for skipping the toll.


I would also use the $2 bills to tip the waitress at the Chinese buffet.

And of course she would run around showing everybody in the kitchen the
fake money someone passed her....

and then the owners approached me and scolded me for fake money.

It took a while but they figured it out.

On 03/08/2019 12:52 PM, Stephen Myers via Groups.Io wrote:
I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they
usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different
occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer
here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried
to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard
time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

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David Lininger, kb0zke
Rev. 2:10
kb0zke@...

$2 bills is real money.

I used to keep a lot of them when I was driving because my turnpike toll
one way to work was $2.55  so I would wrap a 50 cent piece and a nickel
into a folded triangle made of  a $2 bill and hand it to the toll booth
guy and drive off with him thinking I short changed him every time.   
He would look at one paper bill and two coins and be pretty certain that
could not be $2.55 and he would hit the alarm bell.... the one that said
...we get to chase you for skipping the toll.


I would also use the $2 bills to tip the waitress at the Chinese buffet.

And of course she would run around showing everybody in the kitchen the
fake money someone passed her....

and then the owners approached me and scolded me for fake money.

It took a while but they figured it out.










On 03/08/2019 12:52 PM, Stephen Myers via Groups.Io wrote:

I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they
usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different
occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer
here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried
to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard
time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

I was in our local Fred Meyer (Kroger) store last week.  The older lady clerk commented to me that she had kept an old style $20 bill in her register for some time and decided to get rid of it.  She said she handed it to a younger (20 maybe) kid.  She said the customer came unglued and accused her or intentionally handing out counterfeit money!  She called her manager over who also tried to explain to the kid that it was in fact real money, just older but he refused to accept it and said he was going to report them to the police!

I am not a coin collector but suspect the old style $20 is worth more than $20 (maybe not much but still worth more to a collector).  I suspect the same thing would happen if someone these days received a 1943 penny (you know,  the ones that were not made out of copper but were made out of tin or something).  I will bet it will get thrown away like a Canadian penny would here since banks won't take them (at least most banks here won't accept Canadian coins or money).

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY

On 3/8/2019 9:52 AM, Stephen Myers via Groups.Io wrote:

I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

I am down here in Panama and when someone request a QSL card, they usually put money in it to cover the cost of postage. On two different occasions, I have rec $2.00 bills. I have them taped to my computer here in the "shack". I often wonder what the clerk would do if I tried to "pass" them! As I am not fluent in Spanish, I would have a hard time trying to explain my way out of the situation.

73's
Steve
de HP9SAM

Johnny, I wish I knew if we even have a vote.  I would sure do my best to vote and get others to vote as well.  

72/73  joe  W0MQY

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 12:14 Johnny Matlock <jomatlock@...> wrote:

I’m on board, where do we vote?

73

Johnny AC0BQ 

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:19 AM Dick Hammond <n0tgr2@...> wrote:

I don't dig DST either Joe.  Let's abolish it.

Dick.  n0tgr

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What a great improvement,  Yahoo just didn't work for me.  Dick,  n0tgr

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