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And until someone figures out how to trick the machine. Like my dad's coworkers using a hammer to flatten out 25c coins a bit more and make the machine believe they're 50c, thus buying coffee at half price and filling the machine of useless coins
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@nerthos but we dont have a 50 cent coin....im jelly
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@nerthos Newer machines are actually weight- or material-based or something like that to prevent stuff like that.
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@rednorth Here we have 1c, 5c, 10c, 25c, 50c, $1 and $2 coins, and commemorative $2 and $5 coins (those last two are fairly old but technically still legal tender). 1c coins have been phased out due to inflation over the last 22-23 years though, as the increase in metal prices and decrease of the currency's value made them both kinda useless and a money sink for the state.
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@mrmattimation The thing is, the two coins are pretty much the same except for a slight difference in size and the engraving
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@nerthos we have 5c, 10c, 25,
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@nerthos 1$, 2$ and then it goes to bills
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@rednorth We have bills for $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 here. I'd argue a $500 bill would be useful, but the government won't issue one because that'd be admitting to inflation. Even though any important cash transaction requires you to carry dozens of bills otherwise, easily noticeable.
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@nerthos our bills are the same except 2$ cus we have a coin for that
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@nerthos Man I remember when I was a kid I thought $20 was a bunch of money and then I realized that most people carry hundreds on them at a time and suddenly money isn't so magical to me anymore.
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@mrmattimation I usually carry a few hundreds on local currency at a time. It isn't THAT much though. Enough to buy whatever I might need at any time or get a few bags of groceries if I remember something's needed at home or get a call/text asking me to. I only carry lots if I need to go to the bank or to make a puchrase, or am going to buy stuff for some job.
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@nerthos Oh yeah I'm aware that hundreds really aren't that much. I was just drawing a contrast to my line of thinking as a dumb kid.
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@mrmattimation The 50 coin is only slightly bigger. The 25 one comes in two varieties though. There's also a silvery one. The 50 one is only made of that alloy.
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@mrmattimation Everything was big money as kids. More so for me since money was worth a lot more back then.
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