US money question

NeVeR

Just a quick question,,

my lilttle bro is going to the states for a few months, and i got him some money, and he got some himself,

but they are different , take a look at the image i have attached,

http://www.davidstokes.com/US_money.jpg

will both types be accepted in stores/bars/etc.

I've seen the bottom type before but not the top one, is it new?

Hobbes

The top one is the new $50. It has more security features in it. The bottom one is the old ones. Both should be accepted.

Having said that I had problems changing $2 bills and $1 coins. Some people don't even know thier own currency.

Should be ok though.

tovalee

yea $2 bills and $1 coins can be hard to pass because you rarely see them in circulation.

IDM

tovalee wrote:

yea $2 bills and $1 coins can be hard to pass because you rarely see them in circulation.

You rarely see them in circulation because most people consider them collectors items and therefore often hang onto them. Nice thing about american currency is you never really have to worry about it being rejected, even the old stuff. There are still coins in circulation from the 20s (maybe older, even). And when new bills are issued, the old ones are just slowly taken off the market instead of the government setting a deadline to use them. This is how it's been for the last 20 years, at least.

KdjaCL

1 dollar bill is the most anooying note ever, Hey i gots of money ehhh no i dont.


kdjac

Creamy Goodness

there's one thing i don't get about american money (it's been awhile since i was there last about 4 years or so) is that all the bills are the same size.

what the hell are you meant to do if you are blind? trust a shop keeper?

Lump

Ah.... If you got them in a bank, worst that'll happen to him is that he'll have to go to a bank state side and get them changed.

John

ShevY

they'll be fine

Terrier

KdjaC wrote:

1 dollar bill is the most anooying note ever

it's perfect for the strip clubs....

Stalfos

Yeah, maybe they should make a €1 note for us to give to strippers.

WizZard

Maybe that's why they do make them??

As for $2 bills! Read this

rubadub

The notes are horrible and there are lots of each, was always worried I'd hand over a 50 by mistake.

Knkowing the US you have probably commited a crime by scanning them, probably the death sentence

Agent Smith

they should be fine, personally i use 20's for snorting the coke off hookers stomach's, but each to there own

RuggieBear

i actually found the $1 bill to be a very sloppy note. i was in NY last summer and found the bloody white border around them were different sizes and often crooked. Was convinced they were counterfeit but all the shops and banks took them no problem. Cheap ass printing.

Hobbes

WizZard wrote:

Maybe that's why they do make them??

As for $2 bills! Read this

You need to log in. You can try this one.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685

Stabshauptmann

rubadub wrote:

The notes are horrible and there are lots of each, was always worried I'd hand over a 50 by mistake.

Knkowing the US you have probably commited a crime by scanning them, probably the death sentence

Good thing this is Ireland

kasintahan

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

Good thing this is Ireland

Good thing we have extradition laws

themole

i hate the $1 dollar bill also, and the fact that they are all the same size and colour is plain annoying.

i once handed in a $50 and $1 to buy two subway tokens, luckily the girl serving was honest and asked if i had anything smaller. otherwise i woudln't have noticed

pickarooney

They should have learned from poor oul Ray Charles and his tantrums over being paid in singles.

WizZard

Hobbes wrote:

You need to log in. You can try this one.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685

Whoops sorry. I didn't have to log-in, and I'm not a member, but it seems I don't have to in Firefox, but I do in IE. Very odd.

Hobbes

rubadub wrote:

Knkowing the US you have probably commited a crime by scanning them, probably the death sentence

Probably.. although scanning new currency these days will..
a) Destroy your scanner.
b) Stop the scanner from scanning it.
c) Embed a watermark into the scan that has your scanners serial number.

btw, the $1 is the most forged bill in the world. There are even factories in certain countries churning them out.

paulcr

Those 2 bills are only good for hookers and blow.

pwd

guy in that article is a drama queen.

FatherTed

I don't understand all these people complaining about the $1 bill. You know it says "$1" and "One Dollar" on it. If you can't figure that out, maybe you should give it to me :P

IDM

FatherTed wrote:

I don't understand all these people complaining about the $1 bill. You know it says "$1" and "One Dollar" on it. If you can't figure that out, maybe you should give it to me :P

Yeah, I grew up in the states and actually prefer having bills to coins for smallish denominations. I hate digging in to my pockets all the time for 1 or 2 euro coins. I find it's much easier to slip a few bills out of my wallet.

Hobbes

Heres a good story on the $2 by Woz (the creator of the mac).

http://www.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

mad m

Werent those 2dollar bills mixed up with 20 dollar bills when they first came into issue? My dad has a 2dollar bill and he said they are hard to come by and people got mixed up with them with a 20 dollar bill,but this was years ago.Could be an urban myth.

theCzar

WizZard wrote:

Whoops sorry. I didn't have to log-in, and I'm not a member, but it seems I don't have to in Firefox, but I do in IE. Very odd.

I had to log in using firefox...

Commenting on the incident, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey told the Sun: "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."

LOL "he's using $2 bills, he must be a terrorist..."

Capt'n Midnight

Saw some where that 40% (or was it 60%) of american notes are held by foreigners/overseas. So if they ever decided to stop honouring the old ones or ask for providenence for large amounts like our central bank does then a lot of people would be a tad upset.

Hobbes

China has a lot and they are trying to dump it whatever way they can. When I was in China went to change my currency back to Euros they gave me less then half in euros and the rest in US$. French guy just before me they did the exact same thing to, so it wasn't a case of not enough euros.

StupidLikeAFox

where do they(china) get it from?

Capt'n Midnight

ColHol wrote:

where do they(china) get it from?

http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp

Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent,

The United States has lost 1.3 million jobs to China in the last decade (CNN, Jan. 12, 2005).

Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.

theCzar

i've 6 dollars left over from my holiday to Vietnam, i'm waiting for the US economy to recover before i change it back! How long has Bush got left?