TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.
TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.
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A bit like the Channel Islands - they use British Pounds but if you try to use them on the mainland they'll not be accepted. Other way round is fine.
Would these be accepted in the US? Like maybe a gas station attendant would think these are fake but also maybe a bank would take them? Never going to have a chance to test that out; just curious-ish.
I've accepted these back when I used to tend bar, I always appreciated the dollar coins. I also had a dude who'd only pay in $2 bills.
They’re perfectly normal money that you can use without any issue.
Whelp, feeling like an ass for not knowing this. But I learned a thing today.
Don’t feel like an ass about it, it’s rare you’ll get one of these excepting out of an expensive soda machine or snack machine anymore, even if a cashier has these in the register they’d be grabbing the singles out of normalcy.
Plus given how little cash is used anymore they’re just uncommon. Like the $2 bill, they’re legal tender in circulation but you don’t see them everyday and some folks will go their whole life without seeing them.
I am really appreciating how kind people are here. This really isn’t Reddit. I haven’t just been told I am wrong; I have been given anecdotal stories. So I was wrong, and I learned, and this is fun.
Yes, banks take them.
The $1 coins yes. The $0.50 coins no.
They will be, but businesses will often have to check their book of accepted notes. We had to do it with Scottish and Irish ones which were unfamiliar to us in Northamptonshire.