1. What is the real difference between money the government prints and “counterfeit” currency? Nothing, since the government no longer backs their money with anything, and neither does the counterfeiter.

2. When “real” money isn’t backed by anything, why is it that the government seizes the assets of the only company I know of that DOES back their currency, the

>>>Therefore both the police dept and the store should have to pay in the millions

when i 1st read this i said oh boy these kids can vote…geez…but your 57…omg…id hate to have you on my jury thinking like that…damages have to fit the crime…aka quid pro quo…now i agree its important to send message so hows this…10 days at your pay times 3 ( seeing as you could use you other 16 hours of the day ) and 100,000 punitve damages sending a message as a 1,000 wouldnt do a thing…but a 100,000 would

so fit the penalty to the offense will ya….remember you can vote and washington already has enough boobs in it…dont send another

That would be awesome! I would love to see this guy demand his payment in $2 bills! And I guarantee I would do that if it were me! :-)

John

$2 arent new. Im 57 and remember my grandfather showing me one when I was a kid.. I would ask for 750,000 from each paid in cash…$2.00 crisp bills and a free Ipod.

With vending machines now selling most product at or near the $1 mark, you’ll probably start to see more $1 coins. They are more expensive to produce but they last for decades instead of months.

actually they arent rare its just neither really caught on by consumers for everyday use….being in the vending biz its a pain to make acomedations aka provide more accpeting mechs for the 50 cent piece…then it creats a sorting issue so we dont take them…thus people dont want them…as far a the duece bill we would have to take the time to sort them out of the ones …as the 5s and 10s go into 1 hopper and the ones in another….sorting through a shoe box of one looking for the duece bills would be a pain in the a$$…hope this helps

I wish there were an even semi-decent answer for that! But alas, I fear not…

The best I can come up with is as follows:

• $.50 coins are too large and heavy. One of those takes up more room than 2 quarters, so why bother. We’ve also got the four frequently used coins (.01, .05, .10 and .25 cents) and people have generally trained their whole lives to make change with them. Works pretty well…
• Personally I like the $2 bill. I guess we just don’t use it because most cash register drawers in the US only have 5 slots and people tend to use them for $1, $5, $10, $20 and then either $50′s or checks.

Honestly though, I think it just boils down to universal habit.

John

In the seven years I lived in the US, I could never figure out why $2 bills and 50 cent coins were rare compared to other common US currency. And the people I asked had no idea either.

No vending machine I used took 50 cent coins (but took your Susan B. Anthony’s and the gold coloured $1 coins) yet the security safes most stores used accepted $2 notes not a problem.

So, here, on this blog, let a curious Australian put the question again to any American readers. Why are $2 notes and 50 cent coins so rare?

i hear ya but if not for the buffones at the pd…he would not have a case…i would award this man 100,000 as damges agaisnt worst buy