What is the closest piece of money to you?
 

I have a nickel on this desk. It is from 1990. It's pretty swell.

What do you have closest to you? =)

Also, what do you think about money? Do you like small change? =o

Bowl of salad. And a my Grado SR-60s.

My computer area is messy. I mostly have textbooks, candy wrappers, random origami, and stacks of cds closest to me right now.

I try to never carry coins on my person if I can help it -- only paper money. If I carry coins, I keep it in the neighborhood of quarters and maybe dimes.

I have a collection of silver dollar coins that are pretty darn close =D They're quite nice.

A dime.

Wait, money. Capo threw me off. I have a $10 bill from 2001.

I have a Boliviano close to me. Yup. I also have a Euro.

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The closest peice of currency I have to me right now would be a silver quarter dollar (U.S.) minted in 1845. I found it in a regular roll of quarters, and its farily well worn.

Just behind it, on the same shelf, I have a tin filled with various silver coins struck between the 1880s and 1920s. Behind that I have four gold-plated Kennedy half-dollars (one is a centennial), a gold plated lincoln penny, and a $10 silver commemorative piece.

some trash on the floor.

about money, in b4 a history of trade lesson.

My checkbook is right in front of me, but if we're talking actual currency, there are pennies scattered in various locations for scratching lottery tickets.

For whatever reason I had totally forgot the Euro qualified as form of currency. I have no US monies on hand, as usual, but I do have a $5 Euro being kept cozy in my wallet!

Random 5 dollar bill in my pocket.

I have $25 (a $20 bill and a $5 bill) and somewhere between $1-$2 in change on the bookshelf by my bed. I hate change, so I'll probably get rid of that soon (my mom has a jar of change she's saving up, so I'll probably give it to her). As for dollars, I tend to like bigger bills, and I try not to carry anything smaller than fives if I can.

I have a few pennies where my wallet is sitting on the desk right now. I don't mind small change, especially quarters, loonies, and twoonies.

I hate carrying loose change around in my pockets so I usually spend it as quickly as possible. When I don't get to spend it all, I keep it as "Cheeto Change" in a shot glass on top of my monitor just in case I'm working on something and I get a craving for Cheetos or some equally horrific junkfood item in the middle of the night.

I just whip out old "Bankshot"...

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...pull out a buck in nickels and dimes and walk to the store a couple of blocks from my house.

$400 in a drawer to my left. My wallets sits about a foot farther and has 30$ init.

Nutty stole my answer. My checks are sitting on my computer desk in front of me. My wallet's in my bedroom on the nightstand, there's a plastic Mott's apple juice container almost halfway full with pennies on top of the refrigerator, I've been working on filling that thing for about two years now.

Thought I might of had a dime in my back left pocket, must be on the nightstand.

I have a tub full of loose change that amounts to about £5 on a shelf next to me. I hate loose change this is why I store it in a tub.

close to me is 5 quarters, a coupon for Tim Horton's, and an empty box of crunch and munch

An uncashed paycheck from a week ago for 80 bucks (I showed up maybe 2 days for a few hours).

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My uncle brought me a 1$ coin from the States. He said they are very rare, but I don't really believe that. Anyway, it's lying next to my laptop, so that would be the "closest piece of money to me" right at the moment.

Depends. If it's a Susan B. or something of that era, it is a bit hard to find, and never seen in regular usage. If it's one of those gold Sacagawea ones, they're pretty common, although, again, not in regular usage. They were minted fairly recently, but never caught on. The only place I've seen that actually uses them was Six Flags, where that's all they ever gave you for change.

I dunno. There's a woman with a child on the front and it also says "2001 D". The back is showing the eagle. Oh well, maybe it's just a pretty common one.

Okay, I just checked Google and it seems to be one of those common Sacagawea coins.

There's a nickel that is wedged between the woodgrain in my desk. I was really bored a few years ago, and all told it was already a pretty shitty desk, so I went to work with a swiss-army knife and now I can't get it out.

Maybe common wasn't the right word, because they are hard to come by. Most of them are out of circulation now, sitting idly in people's collections.

next to me is my purse, the only cash it has in it is a few quarters, the rest of my money is in the bank, which is not far from where I am either.

My debit card is in my pocket... I dont think I have any actually money on me though... just spent my last 3 dollars on a bagel and some milk.

I absolutely LOVE change though. I refuse to spend it and always put it in my 'Swear Jar', and if that gets full I put it in an empty milk gallon. I'll save it for so long, then people wonder where the extra $400-$800 dollars come from. I think its great, because there's no immediate impulse for me to spend it.

There's two coins on the desk in front of me right now. One is a 10p from 2001 which is entirely average in every way. The other is a 20p that is a bit more shiny than average, and it's from 2003.

I like small change. I regularly have as much as £10.00 or more in small change just laying around. You never know when it might come in useful for vending machines, or public transportation. Both of which are extremely fussy about taking paper money for small amounts in this country.

1980 dime beside my TV.

I loathe small change. Bills, I am always reluctant to break up, but even if I had like $20 worth of coin, that makes me tempted to waste it on DDR or drinks, instead of saving up for video games or drinking at home/from water fountains.

A five franc coin from switzerland, and one of those old two-dollar bills. I've also got a one dollar value poker chip from the River Rock Casino that I found on the street. Not necessarily a coin, but definitely one of my more favourite circular objects.

I personally hate carrying around anything smaller than dimes. Too useless. I hate handling tiny coins, so I usually just carry quarters, loonies and toonies.

A penny from the 1930's. I don't know how the hell that ended up on the corner of my desk. :O

A $20 and a few ones in the wallet near me. I tend to carry change with me as well and sometimes I actually use it to pay since I don't like having too much change with me.

I rolled a bunch of change yesterday, so the only money I happen to have nearby is a $100 bill in my wallet. It's left over from Christmas though, so that's sadly not a common occurence. I generally try to keep $20 bills and $1 bills with me since they're easy to keep track of without being large enough to worry.

I don't think there's any money anywhere near me, not even a penny. Dahm I'm broke :(

I don't see any cash or coins near me, but I have my Best Buy credit card in front of me since I just activated it in the most excruciating activation process ever. Does that count?

Edit: Found a nickel in a container near me: 1990. No joke.

Right at this moment I have a lever-arch file to the right of me and a £2pound coin. I also have a printer and a cup of apple juice to the left of me.

About £5 left over from last week. My wallet being on top of my (rather worrying) bank statement. I hate small change. As in with a deep, heartfelt loathing kind of hate.

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That would be my euro plate. You can see my cig money jar right next to it, which I will empty soon for Virginie's birthday.

I have a U.S. dollar in my right outer pocket, and a $2 coin from Mexico in my inner pocket.

I have no idea why but I see Mexican money everywhere around here.

I got a 2006 penny laying around the computer desk. I don't mind carrying loose change, but whenever I do, I have to spend it on a drink or a bag of chips.

The closest thing I have is a 2002 dime, which is on my desk. Not too far from that is my wallet with various US bills, coins and, of course, the credit card.

Sweet! Just found out I got two nickels and a dime in my drawer at my computer desk! I should hide money there more often so that I have money when I need it in a pinch.

When I get a weird or new looking coin I keep it for a while but I always like to have my money rolling. There's a dollar note that dad gave me from his first trip to the US, its still there.

About $10 in small change sitting on a shelf of my puta desk. Every few days I empty my wallet's change pocket of everything but a few $1 & $2 coins, the rest goes on the shelf. Usually gets spent on a pizza or some other form of takeaway when I can't be bothered cooking.

Lots of 5p, 10p and 20p coins, all on top of a 10 pound note with a huge rip in it.

The closes piece of money to me right now is a 1 peso coin (Philippine Peso) that is a 2003 series.

Small change? Its all okay, I usually keep the small ones at home (50 centavos below), while the 1 peso and up change, can stay in a jar or a container where I can save em up for emergency purposes.

Let's see, that would be my bag of quarters for laundry. Running a bit low relatively since each wash takes $1.50 and each dry cycle takes $1.25.

As for having small change, I don't mind having it but usually, I have a shit ton of it and it just stays in my wallet or overflows into my pocket.

If I was at my girlfriend's house right now. I'd be able to tell you about her change pile. It's seriously the biggest pile of change you ever saw in your life. I never counted it, because it's her money, but I'm certain there must be about forty pounds there at any given time. All coins. Mostly 1 pound or 2 pound coins, but a substantial amount of smaller coins too.

I have no idea why. She just says it's handy to keek change around for the bus, but surely that's ridiculous. I completely forgot about that when I made my last post, but surely it's worthy of comment. One time when I was visting I managed to upset the stacks, and that was chaos. Coins went literally everywhere. It took a while to pick all that up.

The more I think about it, the more I realise I could be underestimating this pile. It's huge.

I have about $4 in quarters in my purse that's at my back right now. Small change doesn't bother me because I need it for the bus anyway.

I was looking for some money around my room for the purposes of this thread, and I opened up an old jewelry box and found around $50 in predominately one dollar bills, with a couple tens thrown in there.

I love it when that happens, but I really need to take better care of my money >_>

So want to buy this one but I heard it's expensive. Worth the price?


Also, I have Canadian dimes, nickels and quarters circa 2001. Also have those "celebration" coins (special edition ones I get as change) as well as old Filipino coins in 1 and 5-peso denominations.

Sitting on my desk right now I have two quarters, a dime, a nickel, two loonies, and a toonie, as well as a silver canadian british columbia dollar, a 5 euro cent coin, 50 pence, two two pence, twenty pence, two ten pence, two cent aussie coin, 10 cent new zealand coin, five pence, two three pence, ten shillings from Fiji, one million marks from Germany (1923), one hundred thousand marks (1923) , fifty thousand marks (1922) , ten thousand marks (1922), a five dollar rare 1954 bill, 2 two dollar canadian bills, a one dollar canadian bill, a prince edward island penny, one pound, two pound, Penticton Beach BC festival silver dollar, fifty cent coin, six pence, two half penny, a couple large pennies with queen victoria, and king george IV, two shilling coin w/ george VI, one hundred yen coin, four 5 yen coins (ones with a hole in the middle), one US nickel, and dime, and a new penny. I have a couple others but they are not near my desk :)

The Grado SR-60s are only $69.99 and the sound they produce is equal or better than that of $300 Bose cans. Definitely worth the price.

I have $50 in my pocket. I hardly ever carry more than that on me, with the exception of a few coins in my wallet.

I have a $20 in my wallet. But there's a penny in front of me on the desk!

It's kind of... pathetic. =/ I'm not sure why.

Two things: A ten-spot and a Zune.

I avoid carrying coins on my persona. The only coin I find relatively useful is the quarter to feed my caffeine addiction. I use my wallet for "larger" money (ie, twenty and up). Ten and lower just get shoved in my pockets. They're gianormous, so I getting picked is usually not something I'll need to worry about. Loose coins are kept in a shoe (not sure why it is a shoe). Coins that are valuable generally go to my mother unless they're Morgans. I'll get them all back eventually, but I lead a cluttered life at the moment.