JimVanDeventerTIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.
These aren’t rare or unseen. All legal US money
These aren’t rare in the sense that everybody has one they keep as a collectible. I’d I went down to 7/11 and tried to buy something with it they’d give me a funny look.
no they wouldnt. its money. i work at a gas station we get these all the time
Transporter Room 3I have a friend who works at a bank, and when he was a teller there was a guy who would come in every friday and exchange 500 in dollar coins of varying types, the little brass colored ones here, the silver looking ones, and also 50 cent pieces.
They didn’t carry that much at any time because nobody really brings them in so they had to start special ordering them for this one guy. Every week.
No idea what he uses them for, but either he’s got a shitload of them, or he makes it hail at strip clubs.
50 cent coins contained silver for a few years longer than dimes and quarters. So you have a slightly better chance of finding a silver coin worth a few dollars in a roll of halves. It’s free gambling for numismatists.
Source: I ask for the occasional roll of halves.
My grandfather used to do this with nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar pieces. When he passed I got the “random coins” that were literally all years prior to the change in materials.
No idea how much it’s all worth but it’s in the back of a closet somewhere.
I guess this didn’t occur to me because the guy also got the regular brass ones, which don’t have any value above face value to my knowledge. They didn’t contain actual gold at any point.
I would have thought people would have collected/sold the silver ones out of circulation by now.