My Change Today From Wendy's

[Homerboy]

The US doesn't have a "penny". We have 1-Cent coins.
Pennies are a tool of the English King.

 

[twinrider1]

Cool find.

The clip was funny. Biggie fries, $.99. Wendy's used to be awesome. It's still decent if you catch them on a good day.

And yes, get rid of the 1-Cent coin already.

 

[crashtech]

That would be fine...except in states that have sales tax...getting rid of the pennies will automatically raise prices...$1.99 becomes $2.00....and sales tax...will be rounded up to account for it.

I didn't think I would need to point this out in this crowd, but statistically, amounts rounded up will be equal to amounts rounded down over time. A $1.99 purchase is never $1.99 after tax anyway, in my locale it is $2.11, which would be rounded down to $2.10.

This has already been going forever for amounts less than a penny.

 

[wabbitslayer]

Baconator with extra mayo

 

[edro]

1936. I don't have the coin on me. It's in the gun safe with the rest of my silver. But in the pic in the OP, it might be Denver.

Mint mark is on the back of the merc dime.
There are no valuable mintages of the 1936.

It's worth 13-16x face value, so $1.60.
They have a $2-3 price tag on eBay or coin stores.

 

[olds]

Mint mark is on the back of the merc dime.
There are no valuable mintages of the 1936.

It's worth 13-16x face value, so $1.60.
They have a $2-3 price tag on eBay or coin stores.

DAMNIT! I was $.04 off!

 

[02ranger]

Baconator with extra mayo

Oh god, I can feel my arteries clogging just reading that. D:

J/K, I actually like the Baconator, but I usually ask for less mayo. Probably just the difference in our stores.

 

[QueBert]

Baconator with extra mayo

Quad version owns.

 

[jagec]

Rounding to the nearest five cents makes sense to me.

I would say 10 cents, just to make it easier to decimalize.

The day we get rid of the penny can't come fast enough.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

My grandmother gave me a big bag of these, some dating back into the 1800's though the oldest ones are in poor condition. I think they are worth more from their silver value than anything.

 

[ctbaars]

I say, divide all prices by 10. Just revaluate the money x10. It would be 1949 all over again.

 

[Ronstang]

I was in the convenient store one day behind a kid trying to buy cigarettes with a handful of Mercury dimes but he didn't have enough money for a pack. I told him the dimes were worth way more than the cigarettes. He didn't care, just wanted his smokes. I bought him the cigarettes and kept the dimes....kids are STUPID!

 

[KLin]

Whoa mercury head dime. Nice

 

[KLin]

I was in the convenient store one day behind a kid trying to buy cigarettes with a handful of Mercury dimes but he didn't have enough money for a pack. I told him the dimes were worth way more than the cigarettes. He didn't care, just wanted his smokes. I bought him the cigarettes and kept the dimes....kids are STUPID!

Probabl stole them from grandpa's coin collection

 

[Imp]

Dafuq is a Mercury dime... It's not mercury according to Wikipedia -- not to mention it'd probably be liquid at room temperature.

 

[edro]

Dafuq is a Mercury dime... It's not mercury according to Wikipedia -- not to mention it'd probably be liquid at room temperature.

It's the equivalent to your pre-1966 Canadian dimes... except it has a picture of Mercury instead of a beaver and hockey stick.

 

[Drako]

Dafuq is a Mercury dime... It's not mercury according to Wikipedia -- not to mention it'd probably be liquid at room temperature.

Bwahahahahahahahah, nice. :biggrin:

 

[alkemyst]

Any pre-1965 nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar can be worth up to 13x their face value in silver.

 

[Imp]

It's the equivalent to your pre-1966 Canadian dimes... except it has a picture of Mercury instead of a beaver and hockey stick.

...Dafuq is special about pre-1966 Canadian dimes?

 

[alkemyst]

...Dafuq is special about pre-1966 Canadian dimes?

Apparently Canadian's don't understand Google, nor their currency:
http://www.silverinvestingguide.com/Silver-Canadian-Coins.html

 

[olds]

Mint mark is on the back of the merc dime.
There are no valuable mintages of the 1936.

It's worth 13-16x face value, so $1.60.
They have a $2-3 price tag on eBay or coin stores.

If there is a mint mark and it doesn't look like there was one, it's worn off.


I looked on the back like in this image.

 

[John Connor]

What's funny is US pennies often find their way in Canadian change but it's just treated like a normal penny.

And Canadian pennies find their way in the U.S! LOL

 

[John Connor]

Baconator with extra mayo

I used to eat a double Baconator and three double stacks! But now I'm watching my weight.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Oh god, I can feel my arteries clogging just reading that. D:

J/K, I actually like the Baconator, but I usually ask for less mayo. Probably just the difference in our stores.

Great, now I'm hungry for a Baconator for breakfast.

 

[yhelothar]

1967 and older dimes are silver and if it's after 1946, it'll look the same as today's dimes. http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1946-1964-Silver-Roosevelt-Dime-Value.html