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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2272082, member: 27832"]I'm not up on non-US currency, but it sounds like we're in the lead on this particular question. In the last five years I've received a Liberty nickel (1893?) in change, and a couple of Indian cents. The Indian cents take us back to 1859, and I imagine a flying eagle cent might pass, too. Automated change acceptors probably wouldn't like copper-nickel cents (they're thicker), but should accept any small cent form 1865 or later, as well as any five-cent nickel (except maybe war nickels). Automated change dispensers will give out anything that's fed to them, within reasonable size limits; they've given me Canadian (magnetic) coins and silver US coins, and I'm sure they'd dispense any silver made since the dimensional changes in the early 1800s. I expect that I'd have trouble spending large cents or half dimes, but a bank teller has shown me a large-diameter Bust half that a convenience-store owner accepted and deposited. So I think you could, in principle, spend some US coins from the 1700s at face value (dimes, quarters, possibly halves and dollars). In fact, if it doesn't run afoul of the buy/sell/trade restrictions, I'll state here that I'll happily accept such coins at face value for any debt owed to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]