If I were to leave a 10 dollar tip at a restaurant, what is the strangest combination of coin/curren

mrpaseo

I came from a coin store once and they gave me an Ike as change (Thought that was cool), I found myself at a restaurant and wanted to leave an unusual tip... I can't remember the combination that I left but I wanted to see what we can come up with. The mention of using the 2 dollar bill in every day circulation brought this question on.... So I'll begin...

Oh one more rule, I need to be able to get this coin/currency at face value and they should be of recent currency (Even if I could pull it from a roll from the bank)... So, lets see what you can come up with, I'll start:

1 ea 2 dollar bill
1 ea dollar bill
1 ea SBA
1 ea Sacagawea
1 ea Washington Presidential dollar
1 ea Ike Dollar (I know stretching it but I got it for face)
1 ea Ike Bicentennial
1 ea Kennedy Half
1 ea Bicentennial Kennedy Half
1 ea State Quarter
1 ea Washington Quarter
1 ea Bicentennial Quarter
5 ea versions of Jeffersons

Total: $10.00

I could almost do it I like the idea of Buffalos and some wheaties in there too

any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ray

curly

The only thing that I see left is to give statehood quarters.


A partial sheet of dollar bills would be cool but you can't get them at face value.

fengk

a bicentennial quarter

BRdude

old wore out silver certificates

19Lyds

With Silver at $14.59, you could leave to well worn 1964 Kennedy's. A little over $10 bucks but what the heck, you're feeling generous right?

mrpaseo

<< <i>old wore out silver certificates >>



My mom did receive two in circulation a few years back... hmmm...

speety

A penny that someone put a hole through

MAD4MORGANS

That would mean I would have to spend at least $50- for dinner!!

That's a whole lot of burgers at Burger King!!

jom

How about 10,000 worn IHCs?

jom

mcheath

throw in a dateless buffalo nickel, a jefferson war nickel, and a silver certificate and your still a losy tipper at a $1.15 short.

jbsteven

$10 Lib

LALASD4

itsnotjustme

Bicentennial Ike & Quarter
The 5 versions of Jeffersons.

That's 9.25
Silver Certificate would take you over the top.

pjgj13

<< <i>How about 10,000 worn IHCs?

jom >>



I would like to be YOUR waiter. You would get the best service around for $100 face value of IHC.

BigDaddyz

1 each of 40 different Minnesota DDR's

Artist

1,000 1943 Steel Cents

mrpaseo

<< <i>1,000 1943 Steel Cents >>



Now that would be funny

Rodius

<< <i>I came from a coin store once and they gave me an Ike as change (Thought that was cool), I found myself at a restaurant and wanted to leave an unusual tip... I can't remember the combination that I left but I wanted to see what we can come up with. The mention of using the 2 dollar bill in every day circulation brought this question on.... So I'll begin...

Oh one more rule, I need to be able to get this coin/currency at face value and they should be of recent currency (Even if I could pull it from a roll from the bank)... So, lets see what you can come up with, I'll start:

1 ea 2 dollar bill
1 ea dollar bill
1 ea SBA
1 ea Sacagawea
1 ea Washington Presidential dollar
1 ea Ike Dollar (I know stretching it but I got it for face)
1 ea Ike Bicentennial
1 ea Kennedy Half
1 ea Bicentennial Kennedy Half
1 ea State Quarter
1 ea Washington Quarter
1 ea Bicentennial Quarter
5 ea versions of Jeffersons

Total: $10.00

I could almost do it I like the idea of Buffalos and some wheaties in there too

any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ray >>



Come into my restaurant and leave me that tip...It would be so much fun. You also get the best burger in Washinton County and the creamiest Ice Cream

laserart

1 Susan B Anthony dollar
1 Ike dollar
1 sac dollar
1 $2 bill
1 $1 bill
1 presidential dollar
1 half dollar , your choice
2 Maine quarters

5 mercury dime
5 roosevelt dimes

3 Jeffs
1909 thru 1953 lincolns (45 cents)
2 war nickels
1 buffalo nickel
1 washington quarter

TheNumish

Bring an uncut sheet of currency and a pair of scissors. Make sure the waiter sees you cutting up the sheet for their tip. Now that would be weird.

Aegis3

400 two cent pieces and 400 half cents.

pb2y

Ten Washington dollars stuck together with a spot of super glue

GoldenEyeNumismatics

is fractional currency allowed?

lordmarcovan

If you're spending Buffaloes and wheaties and so on as tips, come stay at The Cloister and order Room Service on the graveyard shift.

airedale

<< <i>I came from a coin store once and they gave me an Ike as change (Thought that was cool), I found myself at a restaurant and wanted to leave an unusual tip... I can't remember the combination that I left but I wanted to see what we can come up with. The mention of using the 2 dollar bill in every day circulation brought this question on.... So I'll begin...

Oh one more rule, I need to be able to get this coin/currency at face value and they should be of recent currency (Even if I could pull it from a roll from the bank)... So, lets see what you can come up with, I'll start:

1 ea 2 dollar bill
1 ea dollar bill
1 ea SBA
1 ea Sacagawea
1 ea Washington Presidential dollar
1 ea Ike Dollar (I know stretching it but I got it for face)
1 ea Ike Bicentennial
1 ea Kennedy Half
1 ea Bicentennial Kennedy Half
1 ea State Quarter
1 ea Washington Quarter
1 ea Bicentennial Quarter
5 ea versions of Jeffersons

Total: $10.00

I could almost do it I like the idea of Buffalos and some wheaties in there too

any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ray >>

airedale

My uncle who did well in life told me that days or hours before the depression in 1928 people were still leaving a $1.00 tip at restaurants That would mean about $10.47 in today's dollars. I am not trying to start an argument and do not want a reply as such but this is just what he told me. I like silver if you have to make change for gold. Twenty ounces of silver to one ounce of gold is the historic level.

ccex

If I were your waiter, I'd propose these, ignoring what the coins might cost you. Emphasis is on "strangest combination" of U.S. coins that equals $10, made up of no more than one coin for each face value/metallic composition combination. I'm not a currency collector. I won't so greedy and as to demand high grades, Eliasberg pedigrees, or unique varities, and I will insist that they were not patterns, errors, or clandestinely minted. (Relax, TDN, I'm not asking for your 1885 Trade Dollar or 1913 Liberty Nickel).

1 1870-S $3 gold piece
1 1808 quarter eagle
1 1861-D gold dollar
1 1870-S Seated Liberty dollar
1 2006-W Reverse Proof silver eagle
1 Draped Bust, small eagle half dollar
1 1873-CC, no arrows quarter
1 1983-P quarter
1 1876-CC twenty cent piece
1 1873-CC, no arrows dime
1 1802 half dime
1 1877 Shield nickel
1 1942-P War nickel
1 1873 two cent piece
1 Chain Cent
1 1877 Indian cent
1 1796 half cent

OK, that's $9.995, but I'd gladly be willing to round up to the nearest cent for such a tipper. Heck, if the owner of the ex-King Farouk 1933 double eagle sawed in half at the table in front of me to make change for a $10 tip, I wouldn't refuse it.

To get back on topic, which coins/currency that I might conceivably find in circulation would I leave as a $10 tip? This is easier, since I don't collect paper money. If I make it tougher by making this unique tip limited to no more than one of each denomination/composition/type. The strangest combination I can come up with is:

1 $2 bill with the Declaration of Independence signing on the back
1 $1 series 1957-something silver certificate
1 $1 Federal Reserve Note with Joseph Barr's signature as Secretary of the Treasury
1 Bicentennial Ike dollar
1 1971-72 or '77-78 Ike dollar (clad)
1 S.B.A. dollar
1 Sacagawea dollar
1 circulated 1965 half dollar
1 clad Kennedy half dollar
1 Bicentennial clad quarter
1 1965 quarter
1 Roosevelt dime in VG or less
1 Alabama state quarter (If Helen Keller, alone in a room, dropped one of these on the floor, would it make any noise?)
1 "Keelboat" Jefferson nickel
1 "Return to Monticello" Jefferson nickel
1 rusty 1943 cent ( I don't know why I hang on to these anymore)
1 bronze postwar Wheat cent
1 1965 cent
1 1984 cent

I hope that the waitress/waiter will be willing to round this up one more cent. Practically speaking, It will be a couple more years until I actually do this, so we may have a new cent composition or design in two more years.

airedale

<< <i>If I were your waiter, I'd propose these, ignoring what the coins might cost you. Emphasis is on "strangest combination" of U.S. coins that equals $10, made up of no more than one coin for each face value/metallic composition combination. I'm not a currency collector. I won't so greedy and as to demand high grades, Eliasberg pedigrees, or unique varities, and I will insist that they were not patterns, errors, or clandestinely minted. (Relax, TDN, I'm not asking for your 1885 Trade Dollar or 1913 Liberty Nickel).

1 1870-S $3 gold piece
1 1808 quarter eagle
1 1861-D gold dollar
1 1870-S Seated Liberty dollar
1 2006-W Reverse Proof silver eagle
1 Draped Bust, small eagle half dollar
1 1873-CC, no arrows quarter
1 1983-P quarter
1 1876-CC twenty cent piece
1 1873-CC, no arrows dime
1 1802 half dime
1 1877 Shield nickel
1 1942-P War nickel
1 1873 two cent piece
1 Chain Cent
1 1877 Indian cent
1 1796 half cent

OK, that's $9.995, but I'd gladly be willing to round up to the nearest cent for such a tipper. Heck, if the owner of the ex-King Farouk 1933 double eagle sawed in half at the table in front of me to make change for a $10 tip, I wouldn't refuse it.

To get back on topic, which coins/currency that I might conceivably find in circulation would I leave as a $10 tip? This is easier, since I don't collect paper money. If I make it tougher by making this unique tip limited to no more than one of each denomination/composition/type. The strangest combination I can come up with is:

1 $2 bill with the Declaration of Independence signing on the back
1 $1 series 1957-something silver certificate
1 $1 Federal Reserve Note with Joseph Barr's signature as Secretary of the Treasury
1 Bicentennial Ike dollar
1 1971-72 or '77-78 Ike dollar (clad)
1 S.B.A. dollar
1 Sacagawea dollar
1 circulated 1965 half dollar
1 clad Kennedy half dollar
1 Bicentennial clad quarter
1 1965 quarter
1 Roosevelt dime in VG or less
1 Alabama state quarter (If Helen Keller, alone in a room, dropped one of these on the floor, would it make any noise?)
1 "Keelboat" Jefferson nickel
1 "Return to Monticello" Jefferson nickel
1 rusty 1943 cent ( I don't know why I hang on to these anymore)
1 bronze postwar Wheat cent
1 1965 cent
1 1984 cent

I hope that the waitress/waiter will be willing to round this up one more cent. Practically speaking, It will be a couple more years until I actually do this, so we may have a new cent composition or design in two more years. >>


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renman95

How about the obvious, 10 George Washingtion Dollar/tokens with no date or mm, no "...God..." and no "...Unum." That would be strange right now.

Ren