What is your countries most obscure money denomination?



The $10000 note is one of the world's largest single notes in terms of real value.

Saw this once... but i prefer 200 $50... :clap:

got this in China and no idea how to use it...

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its ten cents RMB...
 
As Arwon said, all the coins are frequently used, though the 5c is kinda getting outdated. $100 notes are the least used, but even then it's not like they're rare. Just less used.
Plastic notes, cool? Ugh! Never saw one but I don't like the idea. Does it feel like plastic or like paper?
It feels like it hasn't been used to wipe someone's sweaty armpits. What is there to not like about the idea of cleaner, less crumply notes?

The British reluctance to accept £50 notes still amuses me.
 
You want to see reluctance, try spending Scottish banknotes in England. They'll look at you like you handed them a dead mouse.
 
I haven't seen a 50 cent piece since the 90's and now I know it's because they don't release them for circulation anymore, just mint them for collectors. Would get them all the time from my grandpa in the '80s.

The dollar coin was rarer then, but I've seen them more recently as the change machines in airports gives those rather than quarters to use in the vending machines (almost the only place I've ever seen them). Only seen a couple $2 bills in my life, but the last one more recently than the '90's.

Actually it does, because a police officer behind me in line at the grocery store told the cashier, who tried to refuse my $1 coin as payment, that she had to accept it because it's circulating US currency.

Cheques are not the same, because you have no way of knowing if it'll bounce or not. Dollars are obviously worth exactly what you think they are.

And what if someone wanted to buy $200 worth of groceries with pennies? Gonna make the clerk count them up by hand, closing off the checkout line for the next several hours? After all, the pennies are circulating currency.
 
And what if someone wanted to buy $200 worth of groceries with pennies? Gonna make the clerk count them up by hand, closing off the checkout line for the next several hours? After all, the pennies are circulating currency.

I'm pretty sure that there is a caveat in the law that x amount of certain denominations ceases to be legal tender . There is here . For example , the 5 cent piece is legal tender , but 100 5 cent pieces isn't .
 
Pre-euro Dutch coin called stuiver (originally equal to 8 duiten, with decimal system equal to 5 cent). The oldest I had was from 1946, I think.
 

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It's a pity. Yellow's really missing in the Euro color mix. We were promised rainbows in our purses!

yeah, the colour mix is sometimes a bit boring :(.

There was a 10 DM coin? :eek:

Only as commemorative coin, therefore they were so rare. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_...blik_Deutschland_(DM)#10-DM-Silberm.C3.BCnzen . I think I still have 2 somewhere.



Oh, once, before the €, I've been to Hungary (with school), and their coin with the lowest value was made of aluminum and worth 0.04 cent (or something in that range). Have only seen one in the whole week.
 
The elusive two dollar bill!

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Poor Thomas Jefferson never gets a break :p.

There was also $3 bills in the 19th Century which were printed by private banks.


I like the back side of the $2 bill. I used to have one.

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US $1 coins were pretty easy to get if you used the automated stamp dispensers at the Post Office.
 
I'm pretty sure that there is a caveat in the law that x amount of certain denominations ceases to be legal tender . There is here . For example , the 5 cent piece is legal tender , but 100 5 cent pieces isn't .

So if the largest denomination you have is $100, anything priced over $10,000 cannot be legally purchased with currency?

I don't think convenience shouldn't turn a legal currency into illegal tender.
 
So if the largest denomination you have is $100, anything priced over $10,000 cannot be legally purchased with currency?

I don't think convenience shouldn't turn a legal currency into illegal tender.

Well I'm not entirely saying that .There is a presumption in regards to the larger notes that I didn't make . Simply because you cannot pay with 100 5 cent pieces ( which may or may not be the actual number , but the rule exists) , it does not follow that the 100 limit applies to $100 notes . I would safely assume that no limit applies to the highest or higher denominations

But this is the law in Australia and I think it is entirely reasonable that a shopkeeper reject being paid $1000 in 10 cent pieces .

Here is the link http://www.rba.gov.au/banknotes/legal-framework/index.html

EDIT.....on reading closer I realized the law only applies to coins
 
I saw a piece on the local morning news that indicates an intention to obsolete the dollar bill and replace it with a coin. I might not have got that right having just awoken. Anyone know about that?

Makes sense relative to the planned inflation.
 
And what if someone wanted to buy $200 worth of groceries with pennies? Gonna make the clerk count them up by hand, closing off the checkout line for the next several hours? After all, the pennies are circulating currency.

In Canada there is a rule that they dont have to take more than a certain amount (can't remember it?) in pennies. However a lot of them do take several dollars worth as long as they are in penny-rolls.
 
Are English folks/businesses required to accept Scottish currency?
No, it's only legal tender in Scotland, so they're within their rights to refuse it. (Although English money is legal tender in Scotland, because of the funny way our banking system is set up.) Some places will accept them anyway, they just make a bit of a fuss about checking to make sure its real.
 
Are English folks/businesses required to accept Scottish currency?

No, and many don't for hte simple reason that they don't recognise it. Banks do - I had that situation coming back from a trip to the Isle of Arran a few years back, the service station just wouldn't accept my money!
 
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