What are nickles & dimes.:usaflag: :surrender:

[draaiorgel]

Can somebody enlighten me?
I thought you guys used Dollars and quarters and cents?
Do you have a half dollar coin as well?
It would help me to understand what you guys are talkin' about.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

[quote draaiorgel]Can somebody enlighten me?
I thought you guys used Dollars and quarters and cents?
Do you have a half dollar coin as well?
It would help me to understand what you guys are talkin' about.[/quote]

If you are talking about us in the U.S of A.......we have pennies or one cent. Then we have a nickle which is 5 cents, then the dime which is 10 cents, a quarter for 25 cents, a half dollar that is 50 cents and the dollar coins (100 cents). The half dollars don't get used much any more and the dollar coins the US is trying their best to get us to use instead of paper. Unlike Canada, we LOVE our paper money and will probably never want to use the coin like the Loonie or Tunnie.....

Anyone else have input please expand...........

 

[awhitster]

[quote Rosco Bookbinder][quote draaiorgel]Can somebody enlighten me?
I thought you guys used Dollars and quarters and cents?
Do you have a half dollar coin as well?
It would help me to understand what you guys are talkin' about.[/quote]

If you are talking about us in the U.S of A.......we have pennies or one cent. Then we have a nickle which is 5 cents, then the dime which is 10 cents, a quarter for 25 cents, a half dollar that is 50 cents and the dollar coins (100 cents). The half dollars don't get used much any more and the dollar coins the US is trying their best to get us to use instead of paper. Unlike Canada, we LOVE our paper money and will probably never want to use the coin like the Loonie or Tunnie.....

Anyone else have input please expand...........[/quote]That would be a Toonie Bro.

 

[bubblehead]

Hi Ian...
One minor correction to the previous answer. The U.S. has never minted a "penny". Think of the U.S. dollar as a pound. Your pound has 100 pence....our dollar 100 cents. As Roscoe pointed out, we have the 5 cent piece (nickel) 10 cent piece (dime) 25 cent piece (quarter) and the 50 cent piece or half dollar. The British "five pee" would probably be equivlent to our nickel - 5 cents. Last time I was in your neck of the woods was 1973 so I'm sure that you have denominations now that you didn't back then. Anyway...hope this helps a bit.

Tom

 

[Uncle Willy]

The other posters have pretty well explained our coinage system. Course you're lucky we didn't use terminology such as " two bits, four bits, six bits." Or C's, C-note, century note, five spot, buck, sawbuck, grand, half buck, clams, or some of the other slang for our money.

Bill

 

[awhitster]

[quote Uncle Willy]The other posters have pretty well explained our coinage system. Course you're lucky we didn't use terminology such as " two bits, four bits, six bits." Or C's, C-note, century note, five spot, buck, sawbuck, grand, half buck, clams, or some of the other slang for our money.

Bill[/quote]You forgot "dough" or duckets" Bill.

 

[awhitster]

[quote bubblehead]Hi Ian...
One minor correction to the previous answer. The U.S. has never minted a "penny".
Tom[/quote]Don't get them confused. Everyone knows that all Americans call a 1 cent piece a penny. What do you call it?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I know. Left out dinero, greenbacks, Ben Franklins, and a few others.

Bill

 

[draaiorgel]

Thanks for the info guys,
always wondered where the penny, nickle 'n dime were on my Ace id meter. Now I know.

BTW what's the use of loving your paper money (ok they look nice but not practical) if you can't detect it.
Give me the loonies 'n toonies any time or in our case 1pound and 2pound coins or even the 5pound coin.

I do wish our lot would use the 5pounder more instead of keeping them in a drawer.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Most tector swingers call them " Stinkin Lincons."

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I wish they would go back to the big silver dollar here but the brain dead individuals at the mint are bent on shucking out these quarter size pains in the rump. The last two failed miserably yet the idiots just can't get the message. But our government has been terminally retarded for decades now.

Bill

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....four shore me bouy and twoonies and loonies too...one and two dollar coins!