I must be getting old.

I just got back from the corner store. They have a new cashier. The kid looked about 16 years old. I paid for my coffee with an old style 20 dollar bill (1990). The boy looked at it, then handed it back. "It's not real," he says. He wouldn't take my word for it. He got the owner who assured that it was real. The boy stared at it in amazement, then put it in the cash register.

 

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Oh, that's classic.lol

 

I would have kept it.

 

I read here all the time about people not recognizing older coins, but a twenty dollar bill!!!

 

It was ripped in half and scotch taped together.

 

Should have given him a golden dollar. Then the kid would have been totally clueless.

Wait! Coffee's not a buck anymore. Make that two golden dollars......

 

If you gave him an Ike dollar, his head would have exploded.

 

Maybe this event will turn him into a collector.

 

I got two of these twenties from the cash machine. I just spent the other one at the post office. The teller (a woman my age) took it an said "an antique", then ran a marker over it to make sure it was real and put it in her drawer.

 

If it was too much older, the marker wouldn't have worked. I've done that with crummy old bills and had to explain that the marking is black on old bills, not just fake ones.
Here's a funny article: http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v09n11a36.html

 

That’s amazing…and really sad. :too-funny:

I second the Ike Dollar idea. :yes:

 

Another thread on getting old: http://www.cointalk.com/t31969/

 

I suppose that is one of the problems with having so many different coins and notes in circulation LOL the advantage of course is that you have a great pool to collect from

 

I think a good idea would be for the schools to teach the kids about currency in their American History classes. At least pass around a type set of coins for a period!

 

I went and bought a lottery ticket the other day and paid in the new golden dollars. The young girl had never seen a golden dollar and was amazed. Love the expression on a persons face when I spend them and it's thier first time to see one.

 

The sad thing is that in most parts of the world, the shop wouldn't have accepted it. I have to always remember to sort through US $100 before I go overseas since most banks discount older series, and only give their full conversion for the most current series of notes. Older than a certain series and they will not accept at all.

This is so strange to us here, but we are lucky.

 

Haha! Nice!

 

I travel to E. Europe, and not only will they only take the current series, they will not take rips, tears, writing, or those little Chinese chop stamps that you see so many of on $100 if you handle a lot of them.

 

It,s amazing the older $20,s are still out there, and there not that rare!

 

I had a young lady cashier refuse a JFK half, she didn't believe it was real.