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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 125346, member: 4552"]That story may or may not be factual but it is a lot more true than people here think. Most people here are monitary intelligent. Not so with the general populace. This is not as funny as you think. In the area where I live there are a large amount of Hispanics. Obviously no one ever explained to them about $0.50 cent pieces or $2 bills. I purposely go to banks and get rolls of halves and piles of $2 bills. I've had cashiers at stores say what the #*#(*&($&#( is this when I try to pay with that stuff. There is a flea market where the majority of workers are Hisapanic and I love watching them when I pay with a half or $2 bill. Many will not take them because they don't know what they are. Some of the people that see me with them ask if I would sell them as many as I have because they don't make them anymore. I've had some people ask if they were made in a foreign country. The people on these kind of forums are here becuse they are to some extent familiar with our money. Many people have never seen some of the denominations we are aware of. Try mentioning to someone that is not a coin collector about a 20 cent piece or .02 and .03 cent coins. Better yet ask most people if they ever used a Mill to pay taxes.[/QUOTE]