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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lon Chaney, post: 1264930, member: 29844&quot;]Snopes is usually accurate, and is probably in this case, but I didn&#039;t read the link.&nbsp; It&#039;s a strange situation for gas, because usually merchants won&#039;t hand over the item until payment is received.&nbsp; But merchants don&#039;t have to accept anything, they can sell a newspaper for a tootsie roll if they&#039;d like to.&nbsp; And there used to be a legal limit to the amount of change that could be used to pay a debt, but there isn&#039;t any more:</p><p>&nbsp;At one time there were definite limits to how much small change you could legally unload on the people you owed money to--25 cents in the case of &quot;minor coins&quot; (the penny and the nickel) and $10 for &quot;silver coins&quot; (the dime, quarter, and half-dollar). </p><p><a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/297/is-it-legal-to-pay-a-big-debt-in-small-change" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/297/is-it-legal-to-pay-a-big-debt-in-small-change" rel="nofollow">http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/297/is-it-legal-to-pay-a-big-debt-in-small-change</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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