TRIVIA: $1.19 in coins, but can't change a Dollar...

Do you know it is possible to have One Dollar and Nineteen Cents worth of change in your pocket or purse and not be able to change a Dollar?

It's not only possible, the number of coins (11) is the largest amount of coins you can have that is more than a dollar and not be able to make change. Those 11 coins are three Quarters, four Dimes and four Cents.

Clinker

 

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Remember reading it somewhere when I was a kid, something about trapping a thief who liked to claim he "made change"

You actually can't change anything modern with the combination.

 

Anyone care to try it with 14 coins?

 

Easy: 1 quarter, 9 dimes, and 4 cents. TC

 

And technically, you can add another coin to all of these answers. I do not think there is a reason the 1/2¢ cannot be added.

 

Is 1/2 cent still legal tender?

 

sure it is, if you could get someone to take them, which is unlikely unless dealing with a coin person.

 

The problem with this is that if we're going that old, then we can use 3 cent coins, in which case you could have an infinite amount of them and still never be able to make change for a dollar.

 

Six cent piece


Eleven cent piece

 

Thanks everyone for your participation. Anyone here carrying Half Cent, Two Cents or three Cents coins along with other change in their pocket or purse?

TopCatCoin figured out another set of coins equaling $1.19: "Easy: 1 quarter, 9 dimes, and 4 cents." TC

Clinker

 

Just imagine if you include the dollar coin. Now how many coins could you have and not break a $5, $10 or a $20? No I have not thought about - but when I first read this the dollar coin popped into my mind.

 

So 199 half cent pieces would qualify then?

 

If you gave someone a dollar coin for a dollar bill, could that be considered giving them change for a dollar?

 

Yes - it would. Now I have a dollar - who has 200 1/2 cents for me? I could really use some change.

 

A $1 coin for a $1 bill? Wouldn't that be an exchange rather than change? Just wondering.

 

I vote "exchange."

 

Very clever! Ladies First is the first lady to vote.

 

Actually, yes: I keep one each 2c and (nickel) 3c in my change purse, mixed in with my coins for spending. (I avoid carrying dimes, so that I won't spend the 3c by mistake!)

I also keep a half-dime and a Morgan dollar, plus a couple of Buffalo nickels (every now and then I *do* spend one of the latter, usually on purpose). You never know when you'll need to educate a random noncollector....

 

i most spend steel pennys, its fun going to Mc'D's and paying with them

 

A 50-cent piece, a 1/2 cent piece, and all of the 3 cent pieces ever minted...