Re: Types of numerals

Hi Nik (Nik Taylor), in <43BD5154.9030405@...> on Jan 5 you wrote:

> caeruleancentaur wrote:
> > With our luck they'll always round up!!  The U.S. is no longer
> > printing the $2 bill.
>
> Actually, we are.  Not every year, but $2 are still printed whenever the
> Federal Reserve's stock gets low.  The most recent printing was in 2003
> and 2004.
>
> Personally, I'd like to see coins of $1, $2, and $5.  Maybe even $10.
Well, there is a dollar coin.  Actually, there have been two different
ones in the last decade or two: the Susan B Anthony dollar coin, which
flopped because it was physically the same size as a quarter (and thus
couldn't be differintiated easily by feel when fumbling about for change
in ones pocket), and then its recent replacement, the Sakajuia (sp?)
dollar, which is exactly the same size as the Susan B Anthony!

There used to be a dollar coin that was way bigger.  Seems to me it was
the Kennedy dollar.  Seems to me there also used to be a half-dollar
coin or some such thing...

> > There was one in the collection plate a few
> > weeks ago that I took for a souvenir.  Yes, I put two $1's in for
> > it!!  :-)>
>
> You can pick them up at any bank.  I do that every so often, and then
> spend them.  Unfortunately, they're rarely given out in change, and
> thus, probably end up right back at the bank the day after I spend them.
There's a guy who regularly gets whole batches of $2 bills at the bank,
just so he can hand them out as change to people and see their reaction.
He actually got arrested because some clueless-clown cashier thought they
were funny-money.  ("There's no such THING as a two dollar bill!  And look
at this!  They've all got similar serial numbers!  GOTTA be a fake...!")

In the opposite extreme, a few years ago there was a guy who took one of
those novelty "million dollar bill" fake currency things to a bank, found
a teller who hadn't encountered one before, and then he actually took out
a one million dollar account for himself with it, then went out and spent
a bunch of that money before someone else at the bank figured out what
had happened.  He went to jail for fraud...

To get this back on topic:

Speaking of "dollar," what other common words could be used in place of
"dollar" as a word for the lowest non-change denomination in a given
culture's currency?

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