From Counting Back Change to Math Innumeracy.

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14. just for the hell of it

I throw a few Buffalo nickels into the mix, sometimes 4 Indian Head Pennies or a badly worn Mercury or Barber dime. Just to give the cashier something to look at. Most cashiers are unaware the coins are made of silver, the dimes that is.

Eisenhower Dollars are great conversation starters. They're terribly large and look like cwap but hey, if ya gottem, spendem'. is my motto.

Remember that the government pulled gold out of circulation in a heart beat, the hard and soft money can go just as fast and if everyone is using a card for transactions it's easy to track who got what, when and where.

Unless of course you're a large corporation.

and no, I'm not tin foil hatting here.