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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3588803, member: 24633"]I was a bartender in South Florida for many, many years in the 80's & 90's. Every year we'd get "snowbirds" from Canada who spend 30-90 days here during the winter months, and since the US dollar was so much stronger than the Canadian dollar, they tried to avoid converting the Canadian dollars to US dollars. In those days, the difference could be as much as 30%. Instead, what they would do is bring rolls and rolls and rolls of their quarters, dimes and nickels with them to "salt" into their purchases of goods and services. Bringing a few thousand dollars in rolls could save them hundreds of dollars during the months they spent here. As a bartender who relied on tips for a decent living, Canadian coins were useless to me. I couldn't spend them and my bank wouldn't take them. The quarters would jam up the pool tables and arcade games which meant that many of them would be inoperable until the leaseholder came to fix the machine. So, maybe you can understand why I have a dislike of Canadian coinage and the cheapskates who would dump them on us every year. Chris[/QUOTE]