Serious Question For Americans Regarding Your Currency

This is due to the city sales tax! If you buy a burger for 99c, the city will charge you an additonal 8% or 8.25% as a sales tax. Each city has a different salex tax rate.

 

not sure this is true but


Actually, the first five-cent coin in U.S. history was made of silver and was smaller than today's dime.

That's because when coins were first produced by the U.S. Mint in 1793 the U.S. standard coin was the silver dollar, and additional coin denominations were made with a proportionate silver content to the dollar. This, in turn, established the size of each. For example a ten-cent coin, or dime, contained 1/10 the silver found in a dollar.

The five-cent coin (which contained 1/20 the silver found in a dollar) was eventually determined to be too small to handle, and the five-cent coin we know today as a "nickel" was created in 1866. The size of the coin was increased and its metallic content was changed from silver and copper to a combination of copper and nickel.


Read more: Why nickels are bigger than dimes — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/nickels-bigger-dimes.html#ixzz1wDE5POMV

 

Yes, there is a $1 coin. . .but you find it almost exclusively in . . .Las Vegas! NO ONE carries $1 coins. . .
I'm not surprise your friend didn't find one!

 

Not a problem. Send all that dirty, cheaply-made US currency you get your hands on to me and I'll take care of it for you.

Polymer banknotes... just screams lefty.

 

That would make sense, I guess. The food listed on her receipt appears to cost as much as it does here - although she bought her meal from the airport in LA, it was the same price as we pay here. Airport food is obviously expensive.

 

did you account for the exchange rate too?

 

Cheaply made paper currency?

We've spent millions attempting to make the currency counterfeit resistant...it is anything but cheaply made.

 

I don't know anything about that. I assume they just rounded it up and gave her the change although this wasn't shown on the receipt.

 

There isn't really much of one - $1AU = .98US