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#3218561 15-Apr-2024 13:16

1950s US money is probably not a lot different to 1980s US money.

2020s US money (the notes anyway) are quite different to 1980s US money though.

Though, assuming he had coins in his pocket (he did give the 'Save the Clock Tower' lady a quarter in 1985), that would have been plenty for a drink (Coffee was 5c on a sign there somewhere).

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#3218563 15-Apr-2024 13:20

The conversation was something like:

Gimme a Tab
I can't give you a tab unless you buy something.
Alright then gimme a Pepsi Free
If you want a Pepsi son, you'll have to pay for it
Just give me something without any sugar in it
No sugar eh?
cup of tea turns up.

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#3218567 15-Apr-2024 13:57

I forgot about the tea. So he would have had to pay for it. The café owner was already annoyed with him. How is he going to react if he is given a 1980's nickle?

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#3218741 15-Apr-2024 18:21

Rikkitic:
I forgot about the tea. So he would have had to pay for it. The café owner was already annoyed with him. How is he going to react if he is given a 1980's nickle?

By barely glancing at it as he puts it in the till. As long as it's post-1913 it won't raise any eyebrows. Even an older liberty-head either won't be noticed or will be put aside as a curio after being accepted.

In the same way that the US sticks to its medieval or pre-medieval measurements, so it still has coin designs in circulation that stretch back a hundred years or more.

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#3218754 15-Apr-2024 19:19

Old coins are fine, it's new designs that haven't been released yet that might get noticed. The 50s & 80s nickels all have Jefferson's head on them. If he'd gone back to Buffalo nickels days it would've been more likely to stand out.

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#3218759 15-Apr-2024 19:36

Bung:
Old coins are fine, it's new designs that haven't been released yet that might get noticed. The 50s & 80s nickels all have Jefferson's head on them. If he'd gone back to Buffalo nickels days it would've been more likely to stand out.

Probably one out-of-place coin won't get noticed, or at least commented on, see e.g. Australian and Fijian coins formerly in circulation in NZ. In the 1980s you used to be able to use NZ 10 cent pieces in place of US quarters, both in vending machines and in change as long as you put a real quarter on top.

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#3218791 15-Apr-2024 21:36

neb:

Probably one out-of-place coin won't get noticed, or at least commented on, see e.g. Australian and Fijian coins formerly in circulation in NZ. In the 1980s you used to be able to use NZ 10 cent pieces in place of US quarters, both in vending machines and in change as long as you put a real quarter on top.

You seem to have a slightly questionable past.

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#3218793 15-Apr-2024 21:39

Rikkitic:
neb:

Probably one out-of-place coin won't get noticed, or at least commented on, see e.g. Australian and Fijian coins formerly in circulation in NZ. In the 1980s you used to be able to use NZ 10 cent pieces in place of US quarters, both in vending machines and in change as long as you put a real quarter on top.

You seem to have a slightly questionable past.

Doesn't anyone who was a ten-year-old kid at one point?

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#3218812 16-Apr-2024 00:27

Rikkitic:

How did Marty McFly make a pay phone call without 1950s money?

There was a cut scene where Marty roughs up a vagrant and takes his 1950s money and his 1950s clothes.

No wait... that was The Terminator.

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#3218815 16-Apr-2024 02:52

neb:

Probably one out-of-place coin won't get noticed, or at least commented on, see e.g. Australian and Fijian coins formerly in circulation in NZ. In the 1980s you used to be able to use NZ 10 cent pieces in place of US quarters, both in vending machines and in change as long as you put a real quarter on top.

Pre Euro, the UK 5p coin (or it might have been the 10p) was identical in dimensions and weight to the German Deutschmark coin - but was worth about 10% of the DM.

When based in England on our OE and traveling to Germany for the 1975 Oktoberfest in Munich, we took a large bag of 5p coins. Germans were keen on vending machines that dispensed cans of beautiful ice-cold lager at 1DM/can. On arrival in Germany we stocked our Kombi van with cheap cans and continued merrily on our way.

Perhaps a bit despicable in hindsight but a hell of a lark at the time.

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#3219331 16-Apr-2024 22:25

Rikkitic:
I forgot about the tea. So he would have had to pay for it. The café owner was already annoyed with him. How is he going to react if he is given a 1980's nickle?

When's the last time you checked the year on a $2 coin?

US coinage doesn't get updated just to stick a newer picture of the king/queen on it, and even then, have you noticed that different coins have different versions of the portrait?

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#3219513 17-Apr-2024 12:42

Does anyone know where in NZ to buy tiny tubes of toothpaste - the kind you get given on business class flights or at a very nice hotel. I had bit of stash of them, but I've run out. The smallest I can find online is 20g. The size I'm thinking of would be something like 5g. Ideally colgate.

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#3219585 17-Apr-2024 15:23

MikeAqua:

Does anyone know where in NZ to buy tiny tubes of toothpaste - the kind you get given on business class flights or at a very nice hotel. I had bit of stash of them, but I've run out. The smallest I can find online is 20g. The size I'm thinking of would be something like 5g. Ideally colgate.

Are you cleaning tiny teeth? :) Trying to improve the dental hygiene of a pet rabbit?

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#3219586 17-Apr-2024 15:25

MikeAqua:

Does anyone know where in NZ to buy tiny tubes of toothpaste - the kind you get given on business class flights or at a very nice hotel. I had bit of stash of them, but I've run out. The smallest I can find online is 20g. The size I'm thinking of would be something like 5g. Ideally colgate.

If all else fails ask your dentist, they get given tons of them by sales reps. I have a bunch of them for overseas travel, not sure if they're 5g but they're pretty small and stowable.

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#3219638 17-Apr-2024 18:53

I too am curious of the use case. Or try the pocket mint strips?

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