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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 986787, member: 57463"]A lot depends on whom you meet and where, the numbers of foreigners and their origins.  Clerks are often kids for whom John Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower were in their grandparents' days.  On the other hand, State Quarters and Presidential Dollars have widened the margins of "acceptable" coins and in another thread, I mentioned taking a Swedish 1-krona in change. We all make mistakes.  Whether you have a problem or not with $2 bills and Eisenhower dollars is pretty much luck of the draw. Earlier in this thread, I said that our local coin guys pass old stuff to their waitresses in tips.  But that is a passive transaction: you leave the money and walk out.  In that mode, in addition to the actual US of A quarters, if the coffee barista is worth the extra nod, I will toss something else in the tip jar.  About ten years ago, I bought a bag of old UK pennies.  They always bring a comment.  Sometimes, I hand them out at Christmas.  "How about a Christmas penny?"  A couple of years ago, I gave all the clerks at my UPS store Mercury Dimes. That said, in this day and age, unless you want to be chained to a pole in a police station for three hours, it is probably best never to attract attention to yourself in any negative way.  If you have to argue with a manager, you are already traveling down the path best not taken.[/QUOTE]