OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

[Paul Anderson]

If the note is in good condition, I'll buy it from you. I've been
collecting US coins on and off for years, and started on GB coinage when I
lived over there. Now I collect about everything, including currency, AND
WILL TRADE COMPUTER ITEMS FOR COINS AND CURRENCY!

Paul

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:55 PM Steven M Jones via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm,
> resp.).
> >
> > Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that was
> in my leftover Canadian cash from a previous trip years before.
>
> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I was advised I could change it at a bank...
>
> So the next day I stopped at a Metro Bank outlet on my way to our local
> office, but was told they'd only change notes for account holders --
> which I can guarantee you I will now never be. But I was told I could go
> to the Bank of England and they'd change it. The BoE was probably only
> 20 minutes away by Tube, but I wasn't trying to turn this exchange into
> a side-quest. :^/
>
> I still have the £10 note. In theory I might be able to exchange it by
> snail mail, but haven't looked into it yet...
>
> --S.
>
>