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So I’m at a pub in a foreign land...
MrEureka
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...paying my lunch tab in old but legal tender banknotes and the waitress is really excited to get them, which was nice. (I explained that “I’m a hoarder”, and she laughed.) Then she shows them off to her regular customers at the next table and they offer her double, but she refuses. Even cooler! So I call her back to the table and tell her she can pick through the bag of old coins too, which I laid on the table. “Don’t wan’t any coins. I wouldn’t know what to do with them.” “Yeah”, I answered. “I know what you mean.”
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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I would have at least picked out the gold coins.
Smitten with DBLCs.
I was in Thailand recently and had a bunch of old but legal tender banknotes and no one would take them.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
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Don
So that's how you do it. Picking up foreign waitress with older uncommon bills.
And I was thinking of other route.
Well she sure isn't going to school to study economics
There's a name for that.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Care to divulge the 'foreign land'??
Interesting that she would recognize old currency... unless it was very, very old...Cheers, RickO
She wouldda taken the 50 P coins.
I'm in a foreign land today also. Oops! The sign says San Francisco!
You now have a plan for next time.
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
Some years ago my brother went to Japan. I gave him a small group of older banknotes so he could,at least, get a burger when he got off the plane. He said they got such a fun reaction when he used them that he would never give up more than one at a time. Waitresses would show everyone, they would all be jabbering in Japanese. He had so much fun.
Perhaps other countries are stricter and quicker at removing older notes.....
I spend silver certs and US notes on occasion here and nobody even looks twice......
That was good
So I’m at a pub in a foreign land...
Applebee's, Camden New Jersey??
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
I took some 1990s notes from China with me when I went there last year, no one even gave them a second glance.
Ireland with a redheaded server would be my dream pub. Italy with a brunette server would be second. No, Norway with a blond server is second. Don't you just love
those pubs around the world!!!! 
Still Crushin on Maureen O'Hara?
Actually, when I was young I hated redheads with pasty skin and freckles. Then I dated one. My next four girlfriends were redheads. Wink, wink.
Now you know too much.
I feel the same way here in SoCal. Everyday. Everywhere I go. Why? Because it is.
I think you meant Maureen.......
I live in Texas. Some time ago, there was a guy selling a lot of Canadian and English money, mostly $1 and $2 bills. They were really cheap, since Canada is like "Where is that?".
IIRC, they were 30 cents on the dollar, and the England 5 pound notes were $1 each.
I basically bought him out since I travel to both places, and "Repatriated" their money.
December 2012 I went up to Toronto to spend the weekend with my now second wife. Before I left I went down to Harlan Berk's and got about about $100 Canadian in older paper, including some $1 bills, plus some loonies and twonies and halves and quarters for pocket money. With my bad leg I need to cab everywhere.
When we got to the hotel I asked her if she would like a Coke from the tiny store next to the registration desk. She said yes so I got one and laid two one dollar bills and two quarters on the counter and the young lady said, nicely, that they only gave 70 cents Canadian for U.S. $1 bills. I said "They're not U.S." She then looked at them again and said "I've never seen one of those!" She was somewhat excited by them.
Did the same thing the next night with a different clerk and he called the Manager to see if they could take them. They did, but the clerk was obviously unhappy about it.
At least MrEureka is consistent -- I believe that he and I had our first non-bourse floor conversation in a pub in a foreign land while assessing the mettle of each other during a competition of hand-eye skill.
Yeap, I'll correct my post. The Quiet Man is one of my favorite movies!
I spent quite a bit of time in Southern Italy (Brindisi) during Operation Deny Flight, Allied Force and Deliberate Force before the euro was switched over (01 Jan 1999) and I accumulated lots (well, not lots) of Lira, mainly coins, which are difficult to exchange back into dollars. I was stationed in Aviano, NE Italy in 2005-08 and there were a few establishments that still took Lira for transactions.
BST transactions: dbldie55, jayPem, 78saen, UltraHighRelief, nibanny, liefgold, FallGuy, lkeigwin, mbogoman, Sandman70gt, keets, joeykoins, ianrussell (@GC), EagleEye, ThePennyLady, GRANDAM, Ilikecolor, Gluggo, okiedude, Voyageur, LJenkins11, fastfreddie, ms70, pursuitofliberty, ZoidMeister,Coin Finder, GotTheBug, edwardjulio, Coinnmore, Nickpatton, Namvet69,...
They were all the same woman... You just couldn't tell with that funky non halogen lighting you use
I think......that Maureen O' Hara was the most beautiful woman ever to grace the Silver Screen.
But...It is the most beautiful place. Sunday night at the at the Rams game was gorgeous! Full moon, white clouds floating overhead, the downtown skyline all lighted up, the snow capped San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop, perfect weather, friendly people. It's heaven on Earth.
Coincidentally, we had a nice session of darts after the auction today!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
The other reason -- besides you handing me my lunch for the most part -- that I remember that session was that the Washington Bullets were in town to play the Bucks & their coach Wes Unseld came in the Hyatt bar for a beer & was watching all of us throw. We invited him to play and he joined right in and got into it, finally saying "I've got to get one of these (electronic dart machines) for my den". Real nice guy and still one of the best rebounders pound for pound that I've seen (college hall of fame).
The topper was that I was later reading a story about Unseld in Sports Illustrated or somewhere and they had a photo spread of his house -- right there in his man cave den was an electronic dart machine!
I visited Japan a few years ago with a ton of Japanese coins. Most people would not take the commemorative or older coins as they did not recognize them. Had to use them in the many vending machines
Here’s my favorite purchase from the auction!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Electronic darts? Really?
Then you have never been to Sweden. Where blonds are blonds and excellent drinkers too ;-)