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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1264877, member: 31533&quot;]<b>Stores, other businesses can refuse to take certain coinage/bills</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the coins in common usage (1-5-10-25 cent coins) and bills (1-2-5-10-20-50-100) and are all LEGAL TENDER (meaning they can legally be tendered for payment) stores and businesses do NOT have to accept all of them. There is a sign at one of my local gas stations (which is prepay, since I&#039;m in California) stating that they will not accept over 3 dollars in change for purchases. They are within their rights to determine that for any transaction they will not accept over a certain amount of change. So you can either get bills and pay or use a card. Also the San Francisco Trolley will not accept change for their tickets. They will turn you away. I know because I tried to use 11.00 in quarters to buy a round trip ticket. They told me no and if I wanted to ride, to come back with bills.</p><p>Also there are many establishments that will not accept bills over 20.00, and they post signs stating such. </p><p>Although you are free to call the police if you want them to accept that, I bet that when they come out you will be the one charged with making a frivolous call to the police. You might even be charged later with the cost of the police doing their job by responding, depending on the place it occurs. Some police are more willing to just go on than others, depending on the locality and how they want to handle it. The police are not there to make a business accept a certain type of coin or bill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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