> Hello George Pope!

 > ** On Friday 02.04.21 - 07:45, George Pope wrote to Daryl Stout:

 >  GP> Interesting; I learned that unrolled coins, yp to the value
 >  GP> of a half roll arre legal tender, but over that amount,
 >  GP> not,..

 > Have you just heard that, or do you know where that is stated?

My bank taff mentioned it; I'm not a trusting sort, so I looked up Canada's
Bak Act (1913, IIRC) & rewad it to find the truth -- yup, it's true per a 
more recent updated Act.

 > I haven't heard such a thing. As a retailer, I need to "buy"  
 > rolls of coins every once in a while. It would seem preposterous  
 > if the reverse, to USE rolls of coins to "buy" something in  
 > return wasn't legal tender. Infact, sometimes when I'm at the  
 > bank to get rolls, the teller that I would be in front of me  
 > would shout out to another teller that they "need to BUY some  
 > rolls.." of something.  So, they are buying and selling full  
 > rolls amongst themselves, and then duplicating the same thing  
 > with me.

Oh, rolls are legal tender, but UNROLLED coins, over half a roll's amounmt 
for that denomination, are not required to be accepted (ceretainly any
retailer can accept anything including buttons as payment.

If a customer presents twenty loose pennies as part of their payment, you're
legally obliged to treat it as a fair & legal payment, the same as with a $5
bill.

 > Furthermore, every deposit costs me about a $2 fee.  If I could  
 > not return that favour with a roll of nickles I would be  
 > outraged.

Oh, the rolls are legal tender.  

 >  GP> ..go to back of line & repeat with same set of loose, mixed
 >  GP> coins! Until I get a "paid in full" receipt.

 >  GP> But, nahh. . . I was going to keep going back to get my 25c
 >  GP> of pennies changed to a quarter, at a time, at the bank,
 >  GP> but one took pity on me, seeing I had a bag of about $10
 >  GP> worth, & rolled them up for me in one transaction. (didn't
 >  GP> legally have to accept more than 25)

 > I don't understand the anathema towards rolled coins to complete  
 > a purchase/sale, but not a lessor amount of loose coins.  Maybe  
 > it has someting to with not trusting the general public that  
 > there are actually the full amount of coins in those rolls?  But  
 > if a teller at the bank "sells" you a roll after you "pay" with  
 > bills, then they are to be trusted just because they are bank  
 > tellers and you are not?

No anathema toward rolls to my knowledge/observation.  Some grocery stores
weigh the roll to compare the total grams to a known weight for that
denonimation.

No doubt they've had people bring in 47c rolls of pennies too often.

My bank takes my deposit & puts it into a ZipLok with deposit slip(identifies
me); if I was consistently shorting them, they'd just take the short from my
account &, if it was a chronic problem, possibly sic the cops on me for
fraud/theft.  No worries, when I give a roll of cents, it's always got 50
coins in it!

A roll of American coins must be treated as currency a far as exchange rates
go (loose coins do not); the US banks simply refuse Canadian coins, as a
general rule, except in cross-border shopping towns.

Now for some ObJokes to keep this thread on topic:

I needed a place to keep my USDA inspected chicken strip
So I bought a wallet

Now my legal tender is safe

-=-
A Chinese guy in the U.S. goes to exchange his currency.
He exchanges CĄ10,000 and gets US$1,500.

The next day, he exchanges another CĄ10,000, but gets only US$1,499. He asks
why.

The exchange clerk says, “Fluctuations.”

The Chinese guy is shocked for a moment, and yells back, “Fluctuamelicans,
too!”

-=-
Q: What kind of currency do astronauts use?
A: Starbucks  #sorrynotsorry

-=-
Superman lost all of his money in one evening on a digital currency scheme
It was his crypto night.

-=-
I had to throw out all of my danish currency
I didn't wanna catch the Kronervirus

-=-
Every single currency in this world is just an illusion, a social construct
but Brazil's real.

-=-
What would you do if all US currency turned in to cheese?
Personally I'd just start using a swiss bank

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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